Brickyard

Illustration of workers in a brickyard from Germany, 1695

Domed kilns on ancient brickyards in Kabul

A brickyard in postwar Poland

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]

Bricks stacked up on pallets in a yard in Michelmersh, Hampshire, England

See also

• 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.