{{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 on ancient brickyards in 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]] A '''brickyard'''<ref>{{OED|brickyard|id=78134910 }}</ref> or brickfield<ref>{{OED|brickfield|id=23178}}</ref> is a place or yard where bricks are made, 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.<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, 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 == {{Reflist}} ===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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