This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories.
Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. 8 ROF Beech Hill, Wigan ROF Birtley. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). ROF Blackburn. ROF Blackpole; SAA Factory No. 20. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. 11. ROF Bridgend; Filling Factory No. 2. ROF Bridgwater; Explosive ROF. No. 37 (opened 1941 closed 2008) ROF Burghfield; Filling Factory No. 18 (later part of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)) . ROF Cardiff; Engineering ROF (later part of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)). ROF Chorley; Filling Factory No. 1. ROF Dalmuir; Engineering ROF. ROF Drigg; Explosive ROF. ROF Dunham on the Hill; Explosives storage depot ROF Elstow; Filling Factory No. 16. ROF Fazakerley; Rifles Factory. ROF Featherstone; Filling Factory No. 17. ROF Glascoed; Filling Factory No. 3. ROF Hirwaun. ROF Irvine; Explosive ROF ROF Kirkby; Filling Factory No. 7. ROF Leeds; Engineering ROF. ROF Maltby; Rifles Factory. ROF Melmerby; Munitions Inspection Factory. ROF Newport; Engineering ROF. ROF Nottingham; Engineering ROF. ROF Patricroft; M/C Shop Engineering ROF. ROF Pembrey; Explosive ROF. ROF Poole; Engineering ROF. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. 10. ROF Radway Green; SAA Factory No. 13. ROF Ranskill; Explosive ROF. ROF Risley; Filling Factory No. 6. ROF Rotherwas, Herefordshire, Filling Factory No. 4 ROF Ruddington, Nottinghamshire; Filling Factory No. 14. ROF Sellafield (later the nuclear establishment Sellafield). ROF Southall; SAA Filling Factory. ROF Summerfield; SAA Filling Factory. ROF Spennymoor; SAA Factory No. 21. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. 22. ROF Swynnerton; Filling Factory No. 5. ROF Theale; Engineering ROF. ROF Thorp Arch; Filling Factory No. 9. ROF Wrexham; Explosive ROF.
See also
Filling Factories in the United Kingdom
References
Further reading
Cocroft, Wayne D., (2000). Dangerous Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture, Swindon: English Heritage, . Kohan, C. M., (1952). Works and Buildings: (History of the Second World War. United Kingdom Civil Series). London: HMSO & Longmans, Green and Co.