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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 15-18.
Filling Factories 15-18
Filling Factory 15:
Walsall
Pre-1974 County:
Staffordshire
Post-1974 County: West Midlands
Location:
South of Walsall town centre and Walsall Golf Course, and just to the
north/east of the M6 where the M5 splits from it.
Current Situation:
Appears to be no sign of the ROF and housing now occupies the
site which was once linked to the large network of sidings at Bescot, on
the opposite side of the M6. The site was taken over by W&T Avery
for a period after the war and the site appears to have remained until
at least the 1970s.
Thank you to Phil Bartlett and Mike Hollick for helping with the
location and history of the site. Mike is writing a book about the
history of the area with contributions from Phil who contacted me with
the information, much appreciated!
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Filling Factory 16:
Elstow
Pre-1974 County:
Bedfordshire
Post-1974 County: Bedfordshire
Location:
Between the villages of Elstow and Wilstead to the south of Bedford.
Current Situation:
The site closed down after the war and remained undeveloped until very
recently, with many buildings and old roads surviving. The new
town of Wixams is now being built on the site.
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Filling Factory 17:
Featherstone
Pre-1974 County:
Staffordshire
Post-1974 County: Staffordshire
Location:
North of Wolverhampton, immediately west of Featherstone village and
just to the north of the M54.
Current Situation:
The northern part of the site has modern buildings, but much of the site
looks to have simply been left after it closed. Many buildings
remain, though some have been demolished, many of the earth mounds are
still in place and the old factory roads are still there. I read
that a planning application to develop the site was recently turned
down.
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Filling Factory 18:
Burghfield
Pre-1974 County:
Berkshire
Post-1974 County: Berkshire
Location:
South west of Reading and east of Burghfield village.
Current Situation:
Continued in use and later merged with other establishments to become
one of the sites of the AWE. Many of the buildings look as though
they are probably original and are surrounded by earth mounds and the
road layout is also likely to be largely from the ROF.
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As an operational
establishment,
I prefer not to display a satellite image
of this former ROF
Filling Factory.
I have no idea if there are any rules about this,
but I prefer to play safe, just in case!
There are only 2 factory sites where I have
taken this approach.
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