On the outskirts of the minor hamlet of Hanbury , inwards Staffordshire , England , a few minutes walk from The Cock Inn , is a large crater created past times ane of the largest accidental explosions inwards history , which is equally good the largest non-nuclear explosion to hap on U.K. soil. The incident occurred at precisely 11 minutes past times 11 on 27 Nov 1944.
In those 24-hour interval , the surface area was used past times the Royal Air Force equally an ammunition dump called RAF Fauld. The ammunitions were stored clandestine inwards disused gypsum mines , together with contained , at the fourth dimension of the explosion , most four ,000 tons of ordnance together with 500 meg rounds of rifle ammunition , together with a diversity of other weapons.
BBC / East Midlands Geological Society