page_title: Dungworth
section_title: Load Brook
hierarchical_section_title: Dungworth / Load Brook
caption_attribution_description: English: The hamlet of Load Brook in Sheffield, England.
context_page_description: Dungworth is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bradfield, west of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.
  The village also gives its name as a surname; a 'Dungworth' is recorded living at the nearby village of Storrs in 1323. In the late 20th century the English occurrences of the surname remained concentrated in the Sheffield area.
context_section_description: The hamlet of Load Brook is located about 1.25 miles (2 km) roughly southwest of Dungworth at around 295 m (968 ft) above sea level.
  Load Brook was developed from a farm to a minor industrial site in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A "pot clay" mine (pot clay – a type of fireclay from the Stannington pot clay bed) was developed to the southwest in the 1850s by William Trickett, a local farmer. Trickett obtained rights to mine pot clay from the landowner, the Duke of Norfolk in 1852 and was mentioned in the Sheffield Trade Directory of 1862 as a clay merchant. William Trickett died in 1890 and the business was continued by his three sons, William, Benjamin and Matthew under the name of B. Trickett & Co.
  The mine was officially named the Intake Clay Pit and had four drift entrances going into the hillside; one of these is still visible as is the path of the former tramway which had stone foundations. Ponies were used to pull the wagons from the mine along the tramway to the brick works, which had two rock crushers and three coal fired brick kilns. Cottages were built at the site to house the workers. Facilities included a works ~100 SW of the hamlet and a track and tramway northward from the works, at around the 300 to 350 m (980 to 1,150 ft) mark.
  The mine was later taken over by Thomas Wragg & Sons who had a business in the Loxley valley making refractory bricks; the mine and works closed in the 1950s. In the second half of the 20th century the site and surrounding land was gradually used for forestry. As of 2010 the former industrial use was marked by field boundaries, and remains of the trackways.
caption: Load Brook seen from the east, the coniferous plantation in the background is the site of the old mine
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