Show on mapCarrs Tilery operated from 1867 until 1879, they produced land drains, pipes, tiles and bricks used by the Skelton Estate and the local ironstone mines. Its also believe they produced the bricks for the houses at Margrove Park.
The remains of two kilns are visible, one just consists of a few remains of walls.
 
A second is much more complete and heaps of tiles can also be found in the undergrowth.
 
 
The rest of the site is private property, although a chimney can be seen above the trees and a building beside the adjacent railway line remains.
  
I walked down the disused railway line between Slapewath and Boosbeck several years ago and remember noticing the remains as noted above.
Thanks for clearing up that mystery!
The detailed historical map as displayed in the Guisborough Museum shows the Tilery to be a significant operation.
My Grandmother, Fanny Waller, lived at No.1 Wharton Cottages, Margrove Park. As a child, I visited every summer during the mid fifties, early sixties. Two of her brothers, one married, lived at Carrs Tilery and farmed the fields and margins of the pond. The latter presumably the result of removing clay for the bricks and tiles. We called it the “Brickyard”.
That’s really interesting – I don’t suppose you have anymore history on Wharton Cottages do you? I grew up in Margrove Park and there’s a fair bit of history on that, but could never find much about Wharton Cottages.
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Sorry, I don’t have anything that can help with regards to the history of the four Wharton Cottages. My grandmother was Fanny Waller nee Southgate. She lived at Carrs Tilery for a time, then Boosbeck but was back at the tilery in 1939. Her husband died in the 1918 flu epidemic. My other Waller relatives lived in various houses in Margrove, working in the ironstone mines, probably Stanghow.
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