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A brickfield is a field or other open site where bricks are made. Land may be leased by an owner to a brickmaster, by whom the manufacture of bricks may be conducted.
Historically, the topsoil was typically removed and the clay beneath was str ...
is an open site where bricks are made. Place names are often formed from the word.
Brickfield, Brickfields, or Brickfielder may also refer to:
Australia
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Brickfielder
The Brickfielder is a hot and dry wind in Southern Australia that develops in the country's deserts in late spring and summer, which heavily raises temperatures in the southeast coast.
Etymology
The term name was recorded in early 19th century, ...
, an arid wind
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Brickfield Hill
Brickfield Hill is a City of Sydney locality in the Sydney central business district, Australia. The name was used for the surrounding settlement serving the colony's growing need for bricks, and today is part of the suburb of Surry Hills.
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, an area of Sydney
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Brickfields Hiring Depot
The Brickfields Hiring Depot was a building located in North Hobart on the site of the current North Hobart Oval. It was completed by the Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly kno ...
, a historic building in North Hobart, Tasmania
United Kingdom
England
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Brickfields, Bletchley, an area in Buckinghamshire
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Brickfields, Worcestershire,
an English location
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The Brickfields
Brickfields Recreation Ground is a sports stadium and multi-sport complex in Devonport, Plymouth, England. It is run by EveryoneActive on behalf of Plymouth City Council, and is the home ground of Rugby Union team Plymouth Albion of the Nationa ...
, a sports complex in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon
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Brickfield and Long Meadow, a nature reserve in Earls Colne, Essex
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Brickfields Meadow
Brickfields Meadow is a meadow in Woodside in the London Borough of Croydon
The London Borough of Croydon () is a London borough, borough in South London, part of Outer London. It covers an area of and had a population of 397,741 as of ...
, South Norwood, Croydon
Wales
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Brickfields Pond A brickfield is an open site where bricks are made. Place names are often formed from the word.
Brickfield, Brickfields, or Brickfielder may also refer to:
Australia
* Brickfielder, an arid wind
* Brickfield Hill, an area of Sydney
* Brickfields ...
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a Welsh lake and nature reserve in Rhyl, Denbighshire
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Brickfield Rangers F.C.
Brickfield Rangers F.C. is a Welsh football club based in Wrexham. They play in the .
History
The club joined Welsh National League (Wrexham Area) in 1994, and since 2000 they have been playing in the Premier Division. In 2007–08, they finishe ...
, a football club in Wrexham
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Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur
Brickfields is a neighbourhood (as well as an administrative zone) located on the western flank of central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is known as Kuala Lumpur's Little India (location), Little India due to the high percentage of Malaysian Indi ...
, a neighbourhood in Malaysia
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Brickfield Town
Sandymount () is a coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland.
Etymology
An early name for the area was Scal'd Hill or Scald Hill. (now Sandymount), Dublin, Ireland
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Brickfield, Trinidad and Tobago, a beach in
Couva
Couva is a town in west-central Trinidad, south of Port of Spain and Chaguanas and north of San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, San Fernando and Point Fortin. It is the capital and main urban centre of Couva–Tabaquite–Talparo, and the Greate ...
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Soweto
Soweto () is a Township (South Africa), township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for ''South Western T ...
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Gauteng
Gauteng ( , ; Sotho-Tswana languages, Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; or ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts f ...
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
. Previously known as Brickfields.
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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 clay pit, quar ...
, a factory for manufacturing bricks
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Brickyard
A brickyard or brickfield is a place or Yard (land), yard where bricks are made, pottery firing, fired, and stored, or sometimes Commerce, sold or otherwise distributed from. Brick makers work in a brick yard. A brick yard may be constructed ...
, a place where bricks are made
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Brick Field
Commonwealth Stadium is an open-air, multi-purpose stadium located in the McCauley neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It has a seating capacity of 56,302, making it the largest open-air stadium in Canada. Primarily used for Canadian f ...
, a former name of Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Canada
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