Bletchley: Bletchley Park
Description
Located about 40 miles north of London, Bletchley park is an unassuming small stately home set in large grounds. It's also one of the most important places in World War II. It's here that the code breakers broke the Nazi's Enigma system and were able to read exactly what the Germans were thinking for the last part of the war. Today the site has reduced in size as a lot of the huts have gone, and several of those that reamin are in poor reapir, but the key hut - hut 8 where Alan Turing worked - has been preserved. The museums and exhibitions dotted around the site tell the history of the Code breakers as well as of spying in general.
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Getting There
From Northampton there are regular trains to Bletchley taking around 25 minutes to make the journey. From the station it's a well signed, 100m or so walk to the entrance to the park
Latitude: 51.996587; Longitude: -0.742854
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Disclaimer: Details correct at time of writing (19/03/2011), and on time of last update (20/03/2011) but may no longer be accurate, particularly if some time has passed.