The York Handmade Brick Company is a specialist brickmaker based in the village of Alne, North Yorkshire, England.
[2][3] The brickworks is located in Forest Lane, Alne, and was also formerly a pipeworks with excellent clay resources on site which had been utilised for brick-making since the 1930s.
[4][5] Up until 1986, a narrow-gauge 2-foot (0.61 m) brickworks railway also operated on the site conveying quarried clay to the working sheds.
[6] The new company applied for an extension to its quarrying area and in 1998, a 25-year operation started that would yield over 500,000 tonnes (550,000 tons) of clay from the land surrounding the works.
The team at York Handmade helped Martin create a brick in an episode entitled Coal.