Bletchley Park
About Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. During World War II, the estate housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. The GC&CS team of codebreakers included John Tiltman, Dilwyn Knox, Alan Turing, Harry Golombek, Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, Donald Michie, Bill Tutte and Stuart Milner-Barry.
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Bletchley Park was a country estate where the British government gathered codebreakers, after Polish intelligence cracked Enigma just before the war and handed much of the secret to Britain.
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Bletchley Park was so secret that you didn't know what the person in the next hut, or even in the same room, was doing.
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It is famous that at Bletchley Park, Alan Turing chained his teacup to a radiator.
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