ROF Thorp Arch was one of sixteen Second World War, UK government-owned Royal Ordnance Factory, which produced munitions by "filling" them. It was a medium-sized filling factory (Filling Factory No. 9).[1][2]
It was located on the banks of the River Wharfe, north-east of the two villages of Boston Spa and Thorp Arch; and four miles south-east of the town of Wetherby, West Yorkshire in England.
53°54′58″N 1°19′08″W / 53.916°N 1.319°W / 53.916; -1.319 ROFThorpArch was one of sixteen Second World War, UK government-owned Royal Ordnance Factory...
of the site of a former Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF), ROFThorpArch, in the parishes of ThorpArch and Walton. There is evidence of its former use around...
from the almagamation of HMP ThorpArch and HMP Rudgate on 1 April 1995; both built in 1965, on the site of ROFThorpArch. The amalgamation of two neighbouring...
raids, as the Luftwaffe attempted to destroy an industrial target. ROFThorpArch was the main munitions factory in the area at this time. The facility...
England Engineering ROF ROF ThorpArchThorpArch, West Yorkshire, England Filling Factory Filling Factory No. 9 ROF Wrexham Wrexham, Wales Explosive ROF...
Before this, the site had housed a World War II Royal Ordnance Factory, ROFThorpArch, which closed in 1957. When the NLL became part of the British Library...
in Yorkshire, where his father was running a hostel for workers in ROFThorpArch, a munitions factory. Gray frequently visited the public library; he...
Liverpool Canal basin. Much of it is supported on Victorian brick-vaulted arches situated just off Neville Street which contain a centre consisting of cafés...
Factory Swynnerton. Swynnerton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. TH – ROFThorpArch, ThorpArch, West Yorkshire, England, UK ASL Aerator Systems Ltd. (?-1918)...
produced Lancaster bombers, Kirkstall Forge, Barnbow munitions works and ROFThorpArch near Wetherby adapted their output for war work providing likely raid...
situated on the site now occupied by Wetherby High School. ROFThorpArch, what is now the ThorpArch trading estate was also built outside the town as a munitions...
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