Monument record MDO28099 - Clay pit at former Brickworks near Longfleet Lodge, Poole

A claypit 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 a clay pit in the south west part of 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)

The pit still survives as a pond.

<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 3:07AM