EAW000425 ENGLAND (1946). Shotwick Castle, Shotwicklodge Farm and surrounding countryside, New Covert, 1946

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Title [EAW000425] Shotwick Castle, Shotwicklodge Farm and surrounding countryside, New Covert, 1946
Reference EAW000425
Date 18-April-1946
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Place name NEW COVERT
Parish SHOTWICK PARK
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 334914, 371180
Longitude / Latitude -2.9752085899876, 53.233380758596
National Grid Reference SJ349712

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Capenhurst Uranium Enrichment plant. In 1946 it was a closed Royal Ordnance factory. The site was chosen in early 1950 to become an enrichment centre for the UK's fledging nuclear arms industry. It began working in February 1952 but successful operations did not start until 1953 (producing low enriched uranium), and highly enriched uranium (HEU) was not produced until 1954. During the 1950s, Capenhurst underwent successive upgrades until it was making more than 125 kg of highly-enriched uranium a year by 1959. The site continued to operate at full capacity until the end of 1961 when most stages of Uranium enrichment were shut down. After that the plant converted to low-enriched uranium production for civilian energy reactors. In 1996, it was estimated that between 3.8 and 4.9 tonnes of highly-enriched uranium was produced at Capenhurst, almost all of it between 1959-1961. In 1982 all uranium enrichement production ceased at Capenhurst. The site was completely demolished and cleared in 2008.

Bunn72
Sunday 19th of January 2014 05:33:23 PM
The earthworks of Shotwick Castle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotwick_Castle

Bunn72
Sunday 19th of January 2014 05:19:14 PM

Bunn72
Sunday 19th of January 2014 05:17:57 PM
Parkgate Road.

Bunn72
Sunday 19th of January 2014 05:17:07 PM
Parkgate Road.

Bunn72
Sunday 19th of January 2014 05:16:42 PM
Two Mills Crossroads.

Bunn72
Sunday 19th of January 2014 05:16:12 PM
Woodbank Lane.

Bunn72
Sunday 19th of January 2014 05:15:46 PM
Shotwick gap (in 2004, safety improvements were finally implemented on notorious stretch of the road).

Bunn72
Sunday 19th of January 2014 05:15:15 PM
Now the interchange with the A550/A494.

Bunn72
Sunday 19th of January 2014 05:12:58 PM