Bletchley Park
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WWII code-breaking site and British country house, and museum, United Kingdom
Key facts
- Type
- Codebreaking centre and museum
- Location
- Bletchley , Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire , England
- Built
- 1877 (mansion), 1939–1945 (wartime buildings)
- Original use
- Government intelligence site
- Area
- 58 acres
- Current use
- Bletchley Park Museum
- Owner
- Bletchley Park Trust
- Website
- bletchleypark .org .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Milton Keynes
- Location
- Bletchley
- Official website
- bletchleypark.org.uk
- Image
- Bletchley Park Mansion.jpg
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- native label
- Bletchley Park
- Commons category
- Bletchley Park
- topic's main category
- Category:Bletchley Park
- inception
- 1877-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Bletchley Park
- date of official opening
- 1938-00-00
- name
- Bletchley Park
- street address
- Sherwood Drive, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB
- has facility
- accessible toilet
- social media followers
- 8750
- associated electoral district
- Buckingham and Bletchley
- P13249
- Bletchley Park
- postal code
- MK3 6EB
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
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, Margaret Rock, Mavis Lever, Harry Golombek, Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, Donald Michie, Bill Tutte and Stuart Milner-Barry.
The team at Bletchley Park, 75% women, devised automatic machinery to help with decryption, culminating in the development of Colossus, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer. Codebreaking operations at Bletchley Park ended in 1946 and all information about the wartime operations was classified until the mid-1970s. After the war it had various uses and now houses the Bletchley Park museum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bletchley Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.