# Brickyard

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{{Short description|Factory for manufacturing bricks}}
{{About||the airline with the callsign "BRICKYARD"|Republic Airways|other uses|The Brickyard (disambiguation)}}

thumb|Illustration of workers in a brickyard from Germany, 1695
[[File:Kabul brickyards.jpg|thumb|left|Domed [kilns](/source/kilns) on ancient brickyards in [Kabul](/source/Kabul)]]
thumb|left|A brickyard in postwar Poland
[[File:Römischer Ziegelbrennofen I, Dömos, Nordungarn.svg|thumb|Roman military brick factory in Northern Hungary, near the [Danube Bend](/source/Danube_Bend)]]
A '''brickyard'''<ref>{{OED|brickyard|id=78134910 }}</ref> or [brickfield](/source/brickfield)<ref>{{OED|brickfield|id=23178}}</ref> is a place or [yard](/source/Yard_(land)) where [brick](/source/brick)s are made, [fired](/source/pottery_firing), and stored, or sometimes [sold](/source/Commerce) or otherwise distributed from. Brick makers work in a brick yard. A brick yard may be constructed near natural sources of [clay](/source/clay) or on or near a [construction site](/source/construction_site) if necessity or design requires the bricks to be made locally.<ref>Lovejoy, Ellis. ''Economies in brickyard construction and operation''. Indianapolis, Ind.: T.A. Randall, 1913. Print.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Pearce|first1=Adrian|title=Chalk Mining & Associated Industries of Frindsbury|url=http://shropshirehistory.com/misc/frindsbury.pdf|website=Shropshire History|publisher=Kent Underground Research Group|access-date=16 May 2018|date=1987}}</ref>
<!--Very full article on brickfields- not limited to brickyards-->thumb|278x278px|A brickyard in Macon, GA, c.1877

Brickfield and Brickfields became  common place names for former brickfields in south east England. The children's building toy called "Brickyard" (stylized as B{{small|{{small|RICKY}}}}a{{small|{{small|RD}}}}) is named after the place.

==See also==
* {{annotated link|Brick clamp}}
* [Brickworks](/source/Brickworks), another type of place where bricks are made, often on a larger scale, and with [mechanization](/source/mechanization)
* [Clay pit](/source/Clay_pit), a quarry or mine for clay
* [Kiln](/source/Kiln), the type of high heat oven that bricks are baked in

== References ==
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===Sources===
*{{cite web|last1=Watt|first1=Kathleen Ann|title=Nineteenth Century Brickmaking Innovations in Britain: Building and Technological Change|url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4248/1/DX094368.pdf|website=etheses|access-date=17 May 2018}}

==External links==
*{{cite web|title=Brickmaking History|url=http://brickcollecting.com/history.htm|website=brickcollecting.com|access-date=17 May 2018}}
{{Commons category|Brickyards}}

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Category:Bricks

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