Carfin Brickworks
Brickworks (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Carfin Brickworks
Classification Brickworks (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 199801
Site Number NS75NE 49
NGR NS 76780 58663
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/199801
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Bothwell (Motherwell)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Motherwell
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS75NE 49 76780 58663
'Carfin Brickworks' are depicted on the OS 2nd Edition map (Lanarkshire, sheet XII, 1912). They have since been demolished.
Information from RCAHMS (HMLB), October 2001.
Note (1 November 2013)
Carfin Brick Works
Depicted as roofed buildings (NS76811 58615; NS76821 58636; NS76830 58622) lying north west of, and apparently part of, NS75NE 49.01 ('Tileworks'; 1st edition 6-inch Ordnance Survey Map (Lanarkshire, (survey) 1859, sheet XII)) .
Depicted as 'Carfin Brickworks' by 1897 (2nd Edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, Lanarkshire, (survey) 1897, sheet XII.SW).
Brickworks demolished by 1938 (Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, Lanarkshire, 1939, sheet XII.SW).
Information from RCAHMS (MMD), 1 November 2013.
ALSO NOTE IN MS/500/53/11:
" Site now rubbish strewn waste land."
"?Operated by William Dixon - mention of "2 single-shafted Tandem Mixer no.849, January 1899 Wm Dixon, Carfin Works" in Bradley and Craven, Part 1, 10." No further details.
Information from annotated map extract, MS/500/53/11, RCAHMS (25/3/1981)
