Gardens · South East England
Brickworks Museum
Brickworks Museum — a garden in england-south-east, United Kingdom.
Colin Babb — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Brickworks Museum is a garden of interest in england-south-east, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Brickworks Museum, also known as Bursledon Brickworks, is a volunteer-run museum in Swanwick, Hampshire, England. It is purportedly the UK's sole surviving Victorian steam-driven brickworks. The brick kiln, chimney, drying sheds, and the boiler and engine house at the south section of the brickworks are listed Grade II* as a group on the National Heritage List for England.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Description
By 1885, Edward Hooper had died leaving the Ashby family to run both the brick-making and builders merchants businesses. Seeing the market for large numbers of bricks opening up in the area they opened a new brickyard in Chandlers Ford. Here they concentrated on making large numbers of machine-made bricks. This was a successful strategy and they only moved when the clay started to run out. The bricks were still being made under the name Hooper & Co. They started to explore options open to them and eventually settled on a site at Lower Swanwick. This was on the banks of the River Hamble and had plenty of 'brick earth'. The silty clay from the river had mixed over millions of years with sand…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 50.8858, -1.2908
- County
- Hampshire
- District
- Fareham
- Parish
- Fareham, unparished area
- Postcode
- SO31 7GW
- Parliamentary constituency
- Hamble Valley
Sources
- wikidata: Q28403339 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Bursledon Brickworks Museum (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Brickworks Museum?
- Brickworks Museum is in Hampshire, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SO31 7GW), in the parish of Fareham, unparished area.
- Who owns Brickworks Museum?
- Brickworks Museum is owned by Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust.
- How do I get to Brickworks Museum?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode SO31 7GW. It sits within the Hamble Valley parliamentary constituency.