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Royal Ordnance Factory Sellafield

Hob Uid: 1075104
Location :
Cumbria
Copeland
Ponsonby, Beckermet
Grid Ref : NY0261503527
Summary : Second World War Explosives Factory at Sellafield, established to produce TNT, production started in March 1943 and is believed to have ceased in 1945. The monument is also visible as upstanding structures and earthworks on air photographs mapped as part of the North West Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey. Some elements remain visible on the latest 1995 Ordnance Survey vertical photography.
More information : NY 025 038. Soon after the outbreak of war in 1939 the Royal
Ordnance Factory organisation established an Explosives Factory at
Sellafield to manufacture TNT. The factory cost #2.5 million and
production started in March 1943. It is believed that production
ceased at the end of the war in 1945. In 1947 the site was taken
over to as part of the British nuclear weapons programme for the
construction of two air-cooled reactors. (1-1b)

The monument is also visible as upstanding structures and earthworks on air photographs mapped as part of the North West Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, centred at NY 0260 0375. Some elements remain visible on the latest 1995 Ordnance Survey vertical photography.
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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Wayne D Cocroft/21-FEB-1997/RCHME: Dangerous Energy Project
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Source details : Hornby W, 1958, Factories and Plant, HMSO, London (118)
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Source Number : 1b
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Source details : Norris R S et al, 1994, British, French, and Chinese nuclear weapons Westview Press USA (23)
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Source details : RAF 106G/UK/1127 3100 16-JAN-1946
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Source details : NMR NY 0203/59 (30304/PSFO-0136) 16-JUN-1952
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Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : 20th Century
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Monument End Date : 1949
Monument Start Date : 1940
Monument Type : Trinitrotoluene Factory
Evidence : Documentary Evidence
Monument Period Name : Second World War
Display Date : Second World War
Monument End Date : 1945
Monument Start Date : 1939
Monument Type : Ordnance Factory
Evidence : Earthwork, Structure, Levelled Earthwork
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : NY 00 SW 25
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Relationship type : General association
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Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 1994-04-01
End Date : 1997-03-01
Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2007-11-26
End Date : 2009-05-22