The largest brickworks in Dover district was undoubtedly at Hammill 1.7km north west of Eastry. Hammill brickworks is sited on the former Woodnesborough Colliery site. In due course the site was sold on to the Hammill Brick Co. who built a brickworks on the site using some of the old colliery buildings and working clay extracted from a nearby clay seam within the Thanet Beds geology The brickworks opened in June 1927 and continued in operation until 2006. When the brickworks opened a two foot gauge line was built parallel to the standard gauge line and ran between the brickworks and a clay pit – probably that marked on modern OS maps c. 800m to the north-west of the brickworks. Despite attempts to keep the site working the brickworks finally shut in 2008.

The buildings on the site were surveyed prior to demolition and redevelopment. During the Second World War the site was used as a food store. (1)

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2013, Former Hammill Brickworks, Hammill, Woodnesborough, Nr Eastry, Kent: Historic Building Record (Unpublished document). SKE25965.