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Porth Wen Brickworks is a nineteenth-century industrial site located on the coast of Anglesey in north Wales. The brickworks was established to exploit local clay deposits and represents the expansion of industrial manufacturing in rural Wales during the Victorian period. The site retains substantial remains of its production infrastructure, including kilns and associated structures that attest to its commercial operation. The works eventually ceased production, leaving behind an archaeological record of Wales's industrial heritage and the exploitation of local mineral resources for the building trade.
Porth Wen Brickworks is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference AN109. View the official record →
Porth Wen Brickworks is a nineteenth-century industrial site located on the coast of Anglesey in north Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference AN109.
Porth Wen Brickworks dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a brickworks. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Porth Wen Brickworks is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is AN109.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pen-y-Morwyd Round Barrow (3.8 km), Llifad, Carreglefn (3.9 km), Bodewryd Standing Stone (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Porth Wen Brickworks's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Porth Wen Brickworks stands on Upper Cambrian, Including Tremadoc, bedrock that formed in the Tremadocian. The rock here is metasedimentary rock.