Monument record MDO28096 - Brick kilns at former Brickworks near Longfleet Lodge, Poole

Three rectangular updraught kilns in a brickworks close to Longfleet Lodge, Canford Heath, Poole. They are known from historic map evidence. The brickworks were probably in operation between the later 1920s until the Second World War.

A brickworks adjacent to Longfleet Lodge is first marked on the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map epoch 4 suggesting that it was started some time after the mid 1920s and before the mid 1930s. It is shown as disused on post-WW2 maps. (1)

The epoch 4 map shows three rectangular updraught kilns in the north and west part of the site close to the tracks giving access to the brickworks. (1)

Parts of the brickworks were observed during a watching brief during the construction of the playing fields of Canford Heath Middle School in 1991. (2)

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1934-38, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch four (Map). SDO11596.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1992, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1991, 185 (Serial). SDO91.

Record last edited

Feb 14 2012 3:03AM