Brickworks

A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site. In earlier times bricks were made at brickfields, which would be returned to agricultural use after the clay layer was exhausted.

This article is about brick factories. For construction with bricks, see brickwork.
Not to be confused with brickyard.
For other uses, see Brickworks (disambiguation).
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