Brickyard

A brickyard, or brickfield, is a place or yard where the earthen building material called bricks are made,[1] 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.[2][3]

For the airline with the callsign "BRICKYARD", see Republic Airways (airline). For other uses, see The Brickyard (disambiguation).
Illustration of workers in a brickyard from Germany, 1695
Domed kilns on ancient brickyards in Kabul
A brickyard in postwar Poland
Roman military brick factory in Northern Hungary, near the Danube Bend

See also
  • Brickfield, a common location name in south east England where bricks used to be made
  • 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
  1. Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Press 2009
  2. Lovejoy, Ellis. Economies in brickyard construction and operation. Indianapolis, Ind.: T.A. Randall, 1913. Print.
  3. Pearce, Adrian (1987). "Chalk Mining & Associated Industries of Frindsbury" (PDF). Shropshire History. Kent Underground Research Group. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

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