Monument record MDR11191 - Alderwasley Brick Works (site of), Watergate Farm, Alderwasley

Brick and Pipe Works. 19th century works and chimney converted to a house. The outbuilding was a drying shed. (1) 'Alderwasley Brick Works' is named on the 1st ed. 25" OS map of c. 1880, together with three kilns and a clay pit. (2) The second edition names the site as 'Sanitary Pipe Works', and depicts four kilns and a short stretch of tramway running south-west to the northern edge of Pit Coppice, presumably to clay pits. (3) The Pipe Works are recorded as 'Disused' on the 3rd edition OS map. (4) At 'Alderwasley' (i.e. above Whatstandwell) there was a 19th century works, situated remotely along a side valley, near Watergate Farm, was the large Whatstandwell Sanitary Pipeworks. This worked material between the Ashover and Chatsworth Grits. It depended on local coal and the mudstone used had a lime content which promoted self-glazing of the pipe surfaces. (5)