Monument record MDO45627 - Post medieval brickworks, Tilekiln Copse, Corfe Mullen

A post medieval brickworks at Tilekiln Copse, Corfe Mullen, is visible as earthworks and structures on 1940s aerial photographs. A brickworks is documented on the OS 1st Edition map and an OS map dating to 1955 documents the feature as Knoll Brick Works. The OS 2nd and 3rd Edition maps document changes and an extension to the brickworks during the late 19th and early to mid 20th century. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A post medieval brickworks at Tilekiln Copse, Corfe Mullen, is visible as earthworks and structures on 1940s aerial photographs [1]. A brickworks is documented on the OS 1st Edition map and an OS map dating to 1955 documents the feature as Knoll Brick Works [2, 3]. The OS 2nd and 3rd Edition maps document changes and an extension to the brickworks during the late 19th and early to mid 20th century [4, 5]. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5141 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19467.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<3> Ordnance Survey, xx-xxx-1955, Ordnance Survey Epocha5_2500 (Map). SDO18568.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three (Map). SDO11595.

Record last edited

Feb 17 2023 1:02PM