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A brickyard or brickfield is a place or 
Brickfield and Brickfields became common place names for former brickfields in south east England.
A brickyard or brickfield is a place or yard
The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly 0 ...
where bricks are made, fired, and stored, or sometimes sold
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or otherwise distributed from. Brick makers work in a brick yard. A brick yard may be constructed near natural sources of clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4).
Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay part ...
or on or near a construction site
Construction is a general term meaning the art and science to form objects, systems, or organizations,"Construction" def. 1.a. 1.b. and 1.c. ''Oxford English Dictionary'' Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Press 2009 and ...
if necessity or design requires the bricks to be made locally.
Brickfield and Brickfields became common place names for former brickfields in south east England.
See also
* Brickworks, another type of place where bricks are made, often on a larger scale, and withmechanization
Mechanization is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery. In an early engineering text a machine is defined as follows:
In some fields, mechanization includes the ...
* Clay pit
A clay pit is a quarry or mine for the extraction of clay, which is generally used for manufacturing pottery, bricks or Portland cement. Quarries where clay is mined to make bricks are sometimes called brick pits.
A brickyard or brickworks is ...
, a quarry or mine for clay
* Kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay int ...
, the type of high heat oven that bricks are baked in
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* Bricks {{Manufacturing-stub