Yarnfield

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Yarnfield is a village in Staffordshire, England. It is considered part of historic Stone, and is near to other historic locations such as Eccleshall and Swynnerton.

It is the site of a very large training and conference centre managed by BT. The site originally named Beatty Hall was one of a number accommodation camps in the area serving the very large second world war Cold Meece munitions factory. Most still exist in various guises - Raleigh Hall is now an industrial estate, Drake Hall is a prison, Nelson Hall is now a housing estate having housed Vietnamese refugees in the 70's.

Its only real claim to fame is that it was the subject of one of the largest group ASBOs ever granted.^[1]

[edit] Further research

Official Yarnfield Park Center website.

Staffordshire Past Track has old photos and some further info.

Subterranea Britanica has an article on the nearby Cold Meece Royal Ordinance Factory.

[edit] References

1. ^ BBC news story, 2003

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