A brickyard or brickfield is a place or yard where bricks are made, fired, and stored, or sometimes sold or otherwise distributed from. Brick makers work in a brick yard. A brick yard may be constructed near natural sources of clay or on or near a construction site if necessity or design requires the bricks to be made locally.
Brickfield and Brickfields became common place names for former brickfields in south east England. The children's building toy called "Brickyard" (stylized as BRICKYaRD) is named after the place.
See also Brick clamp – Open-air brick kiln Brickworks, another type of place where bricks are made, often on a larger scale, and with mechanization Clay pit, a quarry or mine for clay Kiln, the type of high heat oven that bricks are baked in
References
Sources Watt, Kathleen Ann. "Nineteenth Century Brickmaking Innovations in Britain: Building and Technological Change" (PDF). etheses. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
External links "Brickmaking History". brickcollecting.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.