Names and places associated with The Aldershot Brick and Tile Works

Names and places associated with The Aldershot Brick and Tile Works (Company #7429, 1873)

The following people and places all have an association with Brickfields Country Park, The Aldershot Brick and Tile Works or the land on which the works was built. If you have anny information, pictures, documents or photographs that relate to our history or the list below then please let us know. Email with any details you have.

Adam the Cleric	Held one virgate of land containing 29 acres (became Boxalls Farm).
Alan Harding	Rushmoor Borough Council (RBC) project officer for the park when it was built.
Alverstoke	The house in Cranmore Gardens that was built for Mr. Stroud of Kemp Stroud (was The Aldershot Brick and Tile Works).
Alwin White (Wit)	Mentioned under Kingsclere Hundred in the Doomesday book - "Alwin (Wit) held this land under Wigot for protection; now he holds it under Miles (Crispin), and it was delivered to Wigot, by Humphrey Visdelou (Visdeloup), in exchange for Broadwater".
Bill Cook	of Rushmoor Borough Council provided the original proposal report.
Boxall (or Eggar)	Dug the pit to extract the clay for building purposes.
Boxall family	Came into possession of the land in about the middle of the l600's.
Caywood Concrete Products	Used part or all of the brickworks site making various concrete products, fence posts Etc
Chrismas family	Sidney Chrismas J.P was Mayor of Rushmoor (1968/69), owner of the land on which was built Chrismas Lodge. This land at one time was part of the Brick and Tile Works.
Colin Balchin	Mayor of Rushmoor (2004-5), opened the park on the 7th June 1985.
David Medhurt	Who lived in the area and used to have "war games" in Brickfields with the Army Cadets.
Fred Eggar	Listed as brickmaker at "The Aldershot Brick and Tile Works" of Bank Street (Grosvenor Road).
Fredrick Eggar	Possible owner ?.
George Kemp	Established and owned the Brick and Tile Works, believed to have started in business in 1857. His red facing bricks were known as "Georgie Kemp's Reds", used for his own house, "The Croft" in Church Lane East and Mr. Stroud's house, "Alverstoke" in Cranmore Gardens.
Gould	Along with Keith Kemp, Gould took ownership from George Kemp, continued in business up to the mid-1920s.
Harry Stonard	Owner of the "The Aldershot Brick and Tile Works" in Grosvenor Road.
Humphrey Visdelou (Visdeloup)	Mentioned under Kingsclere Hundred in the Doomesday book.
J. D. Wood	Rushmoor Borough Council Chief Architect when the park was built.
J. Alfred Eggar	An estate agent of Castle Street Farnham who presided over the sale of the - "Lease, Goodwill, Plant & Machinery and 22 acres of Land of the Aldershot Brick and Tile Works".
James Clark	Listed in the Hampshire Records Office as owner of the - "Aldershot Brick and Tile Works near Halimot Road off Bank Street from June 1882".
John White, Knight	(Sir John Whyte 1573 ? Hampshire Records Office) In the Crondall Customary of 1567 we find he holds - "divers lands and tenements, with appurtenances in Aldershot".
John Emlyn Davies	of 1, Coronation Road, Aldershot, Brick and Tile, Works Manager, 03-07-1919 filed a UK patent #GB128805 "Improvements in Steel Keys for Railway Sleepers".
Keith Kemp	Along with a Mr. Gould took ownership from George Kemp, continued in business up to the mid-1920s.
Loveless	Ran and possibly owned the concrete works after the brickworks finished.
Margaret of Overescumbe	Held one virgate of land containing 29 acres (became Boxalls Farm).
Miles (Crispin)	Mentioned under Kingsclere Hundred in the Doomesday book.
Peggy Stroud	of Kemp Stroud, Builders, Aldershot.
Roy Masters	Director of Kemp Stroud, Builders, Aldershot.
Roy Sharpe	Borough Engineer and Surveyor.
Sarah Boxall	Did not pay her taxes and was taken to court in London in 1703.
The Croft	The house George Kemp built for himself in Church Lane East.
Tim Childerhouse	Our well known local historian of Aldershot and the surrounding areas.
Waddleton & Company	Fruit and Vegetable distributors, who we believe occupied the Aldershot Brick and Tile Works site after it closed.
White family of Aldershot	Living at The Lodge in Church Lane East.
Wigot	Mentioned under Kingsclere Hundred in the Doomesday book.
William Giffard	The second Bishop of Winchester, became Chancellor to Henry I.

Virgate (virgata, virga)	A variable measure of land, we have found several descriptive meanings for Virgate (Remember that Brickfields Country Park is now 7.5 acres, 3.0 hectares)
	A quarter of a hide. Used in Domesday for tax purposes.
	12 acres of land providing food for 7 people.
	Depending upon the quality of the land, but was between about 15 and 60 acres.
	The Virgate was also called the "Yardland" or "yard of land".
Hide (hida)	Measurement of land for tax assessment used outside Danelaw counties where carucates were used. Approximately 120 acres, depending on local variations in the acre.
	A very old English unit of land area, dating from perhaps the seventh century. The hide was the amount of land that could be cultivated by a single plow and thus the amount of land necessary to support a family. Depending on local conditions, this could be as little as 60 acres or as much as 180 acres (24-72 hectares). The hide was more or less standardized as 120 acres (48.6 hectares) after the Norman conquest of 1066. The hide continued in use throughout medieval times, but it is now obsolete. The unit was also known as the carucate.
Carucate (carucata, caruca, carruca)	Derived from the Latin word caruca, meaning plough, this is a measure of land used in Danelaw (North and Eastern) counties in Domesday. Equivalent to a hide and represented the amount of land which could be ploughed by one plough team. Also used in Domesday for customary assessment.
Bovate (bovata)	Derived from the Latin word bo, meaning ox, a bovate was a measure of land which could be ploughed by one eighth of a plough, in other words equivalent to one eighth of a carucate. Used in Domesday records for places under Danelaw.
Plough	In the Domesday the word implies a plough team with its eight oxen and the plough itself.

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