List of Royal Ordnance Factories

This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories.

• Royal Arsenal Factory No 1.
• Royal Small Arms FactoryFactory No 2.
• Royal Powder MillFactory No 31.
• ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. 8
• ROF Birtley.
• ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories).
• ROF Blackburn.
• ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory.
• 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 ^[1]
• ROF Elstow; Filling Factory No. 16.
• ROF Fazakerley; Rifles Factory.
• ROF Featherstone; Filling Factory No. 17.
• ROF Glascoed; Filling Factory No. 3.
• ROF Hereford.
• ROF Hirwaun.
• ROF Irvine; Explosive ROF
• ROF Kirkby; Filling Factory No. 7.
• ROF Leeds; Engineering ROF.
• ROF Maltby; Rifles 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 Sellafield (later the nuclear establishment Sellafield).
• ROF Southall; SAA Filling Factory.
• ROF Summerfield; SAA Filling Factory.
• ROF Spennymoor; SAA Factory.
• ROF Steeton; SAA Factory.
• ROF Swynnerton; Filling Factory No. 5.
• ROF Theale; Engineering ROF.
• ROF Thorp Arch; Filling Factory No. 9.
• ROF Wrexham; Explosive ROF.

References

ROF Beech Hill Wigan,

Further reading

• Cocroft, Wayne D., (2000). Dangerous Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 1-85074-718-0.
• Kohan, C. M., (1952). Works and Buildings: (History of the Second World War. United Kingdom Civil Series). London: HMSO & Longmans, Green and Co.