Information for record number MWA2563:
Site of Brick/Tile Works at Wedgnock Rifle Range

Summary The site of a possible brickworks dating to the Imperial period. An eighteenth century tithe map marks a brick kiln close at a location to the east of Wedgnock Rifle Range.
What Is It?  
Type: Brickworks, Brick Kiln
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Leek Wootton and Guys Cliffe
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 27 67
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 Brick Kiln Close marked. Field names come from Tithe Apportionment map 1748.
2 This document could not be located in the County Record Office, but an 1822 Award (without plan) mentions Brick Kiln Close. The site is now a wooded area, part of a rifle range, and no trace of a brick/tile works could be found.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: 44NE
Author/originator: JMM
Date:
Page Number: 44NE
Volume/Sheet: Annotated Map
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Pehrson B
Date: 1983
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 3081
   
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Glossary

 
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument TILE WORKS * A site used for all the processes associated with the manufacture of roof, floor or decorative tiles. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument BRICKWORKS * An industrial manufacturing complex producing bricks. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument FIELD * An area of land, often enclosed, used for cultivation or the grazing of livestock. back
monument BRICK KILN * A kiln or furnace for the firing of bricks. back
monument RECORD OFFICE * A building where official archives are kept for public inspection. back

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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