Did you know that Buckinghamshire is home to a “fascinating” attraction that shaped British history?<\/p>\n
Bletchley Park was the main base of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), where Britain’s codebreakers worked during World War II.<\/p>\n
On Google Reviews, the attraction has a rating of 4.7 out of 5 from more than 18,000 reviews.<\/p>\n
On Tripadvisor, Bletchley Park holds a score of 4.6 out of 5 from more than 8,500 reviews.<\/p>\n
Bletchley Park, the ‘fascinating’ attraction<\/p>\n
Bletchley Park was acquired by the Government in 1938 for GC&CS thanks to an ideal railway connection and distance from central London, making it the ideal location.<\/p>\n
Starting with a staff of 200, by the end of the war in 1944, more than 9,000 workers were operating around the clock, according to Bletchley Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n Many of the workers were women, whose roles included intercept handling, indexing, translation, analysis, and operating machinery.<\/p>\n Codebreakers like Alan Turing, at Bletchley, changed British history by cracking the Enigma Code and Lorenz cyphers.<\/p>\n It was at Bletchley Park that Turing created electromechanical machines called Bombe to decrypt messages quickly; his team later built Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic digital computer.<\/p>\n Now the attraction is a museum run by the Bletchley Park Trust where visitors can explore the Mansion, wartime huts and codebreaking blocks.<\/p>\n Visitors can also explore recreated workspaces and exhibitions focused on the people, processes and technology behind the intelligence operation.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading<\/p>\n What are the reviews for Bletchley Park?<\/p>\n