NHER 31133 (Monument record) - Post medieval brickworks

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Summary

This is the site of a post medieval brickworks, marked on a map of 1843.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG40SE
Civil Parish BURGH CASTLE, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Map

Site of brickworks marked on (S1), information from (S2).
Current mapping shows two large pits on site, nothing shown on (S3) except 'land liable to flood'.
E. Rose (NLA) 3 April 1995.

Informant reported that in the 1950s he and other children used to play in 'underground brick tunnels beneath the golf course', a feature presumably associated with this site.
E. Rose (NLA), 21 November 2003.

February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two large extractive pits are visible on the aerial photographs (S4) and these are likely to relate to the former brickworks at this location.
S. Massey (NMP), 09 March 2006

  • --- *Verbal Communication: Anonymous. 2003. [unknown].
  • <S1> Map: 1843. A Plan of the Parish of Burgh Castle in the County of Suffolk (Tithe Map). 1 inch : 3 chains.
  • <S2> *Verbal Communication: NIAS. [unknown].
  • <S3> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883. First edition six inch map.
  • <S4> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/930 3038-9 16-OCT-1945 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Feb 13 2013 11:30AM

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