Hanbury, Staffordshire
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Hanbury is a village near Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire
, England.
It was the location of the 1944 RAF Fauld Explosion
, one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in the world.
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
, England.
It was the location of the 1944 RAF Fauld Explosion
RAF Fauld Explosion
The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11am on Monday, 27 November 1944 at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot...
, one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in the world.