Rivington Moor Brickworks (ruin)

Rivington Moor Brickworks was an 18th Century brick works relying on clay from the adjacent mine. Heavily overgrown by moorland grass the old kiln is easily found as a round-shaped mound in the centre of the flat area of the site.

The clay was retrieved from two adits next to the brickworks area, although the coal was initially taken from shafts at the nearby Rivington Moor Colliery. The voids that can be found today around the old brickworks are small sections from under the floors of the drying rooms. There are a number of old tiles and bricks around the site that would have been produced at the brick works.

I think this brickworks was finally sold by Garbutt of Five Houses, along with the Winter Hill Brickworks at Hole Bottom down towards the Two Lads.

Old Bricks at Rivington Moor Brickworks

Rivington Brickworks

Local History

Historic monuments near Rivington Moor Brickworks (ruin)

Pike Stones chambered long cairn – 4.03 km away
Stone circle, ring cairn and two round cairns on Cheetham Close – 6.23 km away
Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds – 5.70 km away
Headless Cross, Grimeford – 3.91 km away
Round Loaf bowl barrow on Anglezarke Moor – 4.20 km away
Round cairn on Noon Hill – 1.06 km away
Round cairn on Winter Hill – 0.63 km away
The Moat House moated site 600m WNW of St David’s Church – 7.61 km away
Steam tramway reversing triangle – 7.47 km away
Gidlow Hall moated site, Aspull, 560m NNE of Pennington Hall – 7.93 km away
Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm – 2.12 km away
Haigh Sough mine drainage portal, 310m west of Park House – 9.67 km away