Bletchley Park

Enigma decryption headquarters

Bletchley Park is a historic estate in Buckinghamshire, England, that served as Britain's main codebreaking center during World War II.

It was here that Alan Turing and others cracked the German Enigma cipher, work credited with shortening the war.

The site is now a museum dedicated to this history: We visited Bletchley Park to see where they broke the codes.

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