Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

This is the site of the Kingsfield brick works, active from around 1850 to 1895 and covering, over time, the area between the A2 (Watling Street) and Stone St. A rich Anglo- Saxon cemetery was uncovered and looted by brickworkers in the Forbes Road area around 1870. The area is now fully built up.

Monument Types

• BRICKWORKS (Abandoned mid 1890s, Post Medieval - 1850 AD to 1895 AD)

Full description

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O.S. listed ed. 6" map of 1876 shows brickfield merged with brick pit to SE by 1897 ed. Gone on 3rd ed. of 1908. (1) The reference is to Kingsnorth (later known as Kingsfield) brickfield, owned by Rigden. It started near the London Road between Upper St Anns Rd and the Mall and worked down to Stone St, with horse mills and kerfs following the excavations. It finished when brickearth was exhausted in the early 1890s. The bricks were marked with a K in the 'frog'. When digging in the Forbes Road area, rich Anglo-Saxon cemetery was found. (3) This part of Faversham was completely built over as soon as the brick field closed but changes in land level at the edges of former cuts can still be seen (4)

<1> N/A, Kent SMR Quarry Industries Survey, KCC 144 (Chart). SKE6452.

<2> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9905.

<3> Sydney Twist, 1995 (3rd i), Stock Bricks of Swale p 15 (Bibliographic reference). SKE13338.

<4> 2008, Ordnance Survey 2008, any scale, Faversham area (Map). SKE13339.

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