ROF Thorp Arch
53°54′58″N 1°19′08″W / 53.916°N 1.319°W
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ROF Thorp Arch was one of sixteen Second World War, UK government-owned Royal Ordnance Factory, which produced munitions by "filling" them. It was a medium-sized filling factory (Filling Factory No. 9).
It was located on the banks of the River Wharfe, north-east of the two villages of Boston Spa and Thorp Arch; and four miles (6.4 km) south-east of the town of Wetherby, West Yorkshire in England.