Monkwearmouth Firebrick Manufactory

HER Number

2730

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Monkwearmouth Firebrick Manufactory

Place

Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Brick and Tilemaking Site

Site Type: Specific

Fire Clay Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows a Firebrick Manufactory and Brick Kiln on this site.

Easting

439780

Northing

558100

Grid Reference

NZ439780558100

Sources

<< HER 2730 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8