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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 NW 201 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Aylesford Brick and Tile Works/ Aylesford Pottery |
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Summary
Brick, tile and pottery works with fixed kilns, clay pit, tramway to wharf on Medway and associated workers cottages.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 74070 59055 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75NW |
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| Parish: | AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BRICKWORKS (Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD? to 1940 AD?)
- CLAY PIT (Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD? to 1940 AD?)
- KILN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD? to 1940 AD?)
- POTTERY WORKS (Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD? to 1940 AD?)
- TRAMWAY (Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD? to 1940 AD?)
- WORKERS COTTAGE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD? to 1940 AD?)
Full description
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Brick and tile works also producing ornamental terra cotta ware, including garden urns. Displayed products at the Great Exhibition 1851. There was a clay pit,traces of which may still exist at the north east corner of the site, fixed kilns and a tramway to a wharf on the Medway at Forstal, where there were also workers cottages adjacent to the Potters Arms public house. Said to have been associated with the Betts from Preston Hall.
The works appear on the 1st to 4th editions O.S. (1)
<1> Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE13236.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Verbal communication: Jim Preston Personal Communication. |
