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Risley
Royal Ordnance Factory
Filling Factories Nationally, Page
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Introduction
This is one of a series of pages aiming to place
ROF Risley into a national context by describing the locations and current
situations of the 16 Royal Ordnance Filling Factories that were active during
World War II. Most of my information has come from online searches and
looking at Google's aerial imagery. If you believe that you can add to any of this information
or improve its accuracy, please get in touch through my Contact page (linked
from the Contents page).
On this page: Filling Factories 5-8.
Filling Factories 5-8
Filling Factory 5:
Swynnerton
Pre-1974 County:
Staffordshire
Post-1974 County: StaffordshireLocation:
South of Swynnerton village, to the west of Stone, and just west of the
M6.
Current Situation:
Looks to be largely derelict and undeveloped, although there has been
some demolition and site clearance, and there is a more modern looking
road or track cutting through part of the site. The old roads appear to have
been renamed, suggesting that redevelopment is imminent.
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Filling Factory 6: Risley
Pre-1974 County:
Lancashire
Post-1974 County: CheshireLocation:
Birchwood, north east of the centre of Warrington.
Current Situation:
Parts of the site were used by UKAEA and The Admiralty, although it
remained largely intact until the 1970s when work began to create the
modern district of Birchwood. In the residential areas, traces of
the factory remain although are often difficult to spot. Several
former factory buildings and roads remain in the Business Park.
Four of the original 20 bunkers remain within what is now the
park. In the 1980s, one housed a history exhibition, all of them
have been reportedly filled in.
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Filling Factory 7: Kirkby
Pre-1974 County:
Lancashire
Post-1974 County: Merseyside
Location:
Knowsley Industrial Park, east of Kirkby, near Liverpool.
Current Situation:
Redeveloped in the 1950s and 60s into the Industrial Park. Road
layout and several buildings appear to be original.
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Filling Factory 8:
Aycliffe
Pre-1974 County:
County Durham
Post-1974 County: County Durham
Location:
The south edge of Newton Aycliffe..
Current Situation:
Mainly an industrial estate. Some of the old road layout remains
and a number of buildings also survive, although progressively fewer in
number. Some of this information came from a conversation with
someone who works in the area.
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