Sentence:  The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted <WSD>factory</WSD> glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.