Brickworks
Factory where bricks are made / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about brick factories. For construction with bricks, see brickwork.
Not to be confused with brickyard.
For other uses, see Brickworks (disambiguation).
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.