ROF Chorley

ROF Chorley was a <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">UK</a> government-owned <a href="/facts/Filling_Factories/tbr7G4uA">munitions filling</a> <a href="/facts/Royal_Ordnance_Factory/fMNWPHjx">Royal Ordnance Factory</a> (Filling Factory No. 1). It was planned as a permanent Royal Ordnance Factory with the intention that it, unlike some other similar facilities, would remain open for production after the end of <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a>; and, together with <a href="/facts/ROF_Bridgend/oHUbmVlt">ROF Bridgend</a> (Filling Factory No. 2), would replace the Royal Filling Factory located at the <a href="/facts/Royal_Arsenal/LeAM8VHe">Royal Arsenal</a>, <a href="/facts/Woolwich/FI2XfPuc">Woolwich</a>. It was built largely in <a href="/facts/Euxton/Y6I9P353">Euxton</a>, but was known as ROF Chorley.
After the <a href="/facts/Privatization/TAtreKqK">privatization</a> of the Royal Ordnance Factories in the 1980s it became part of the <a href="/facts/Ammunition/ajd1wm1I">Ammunition</a> Division of <a href="/facts/Royal_Ordnance/S342GhWD">Royal Ordnance plc</a> and later a production unit of <a href="/facts/BAE_Systems_Global_Combat_Systems_Munitions/VmIrl7S7">BAE Systems Global Combat Systems Munitions</a>. Chorley factory closed in 2005-07 and the majority of the site is now home to the new <a href="/facts/Buckshaw_Village/YDU8tDdz">Buckshaw Village</a> on the outskirts of <a href="/facts/Chorley/Lr1QJlz0">Chorley</a>, although many remnants remain.
The factory had a storage depot built deep into the <a href="/facts/Pennines/MIlcoEQs">Pennine</a> hills, over <a href="/facts/Chorley/Lr1QJlz0">Chorley</a>, in the village of <a href="/facts/Heapey/9eU0ru2z">Heapey</a>; the facility is still in use by BAE although its exact usage has still not been revealed.

ROF Chorley open-in-new

ROF Chorley