Monument record 0153500000 - HILLESDENWOOD FARM

AT HILLESDEN WOOD HOUSE ARE EXTENSIVE BRICK & TILEWORKS, CARRIED ON BY MR JOHN PAGE (B1).
1880 MAP MARKS 'BRICKFIELD'; 'KILN' CENTRED AT NGR (B2).
SOME BRICKS LAY AROUND C1979. WORKS NOT ACTIVE IN 1920'S (B3).
A SMALL BRICK BUILDING ON SITE OF KILN MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH WORKS. ALL NOW OVERGROWN (B4).

A post-medieval brickworks and brickfield is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located in a field about 200 metres SW of Diary Farm and centred at SP 66877 30135, an irregularly shaped brickfield is about 120 metres SW-NE and 100 metres NW-SE, an area about 10,096 square metres. Recorded on the 1881 1st Edition OS map as a ‘Brick Field’ complete with at least 2 buildings and a kiln, the site was on the 1813 Ordnance Surveyors Drawing covered in a woodland that formed part of a larger ‘Hillesden Wood’. On an aerial photograph taken in 1947, the rectangular concrete platform of a former building about 23.5 x 9.5 metres is still visible on the western boundary. It is overgrown but still just visible in 1961, though since appears to have been demolished (6-10).