Secrets & Espionage

Where the state kept its secrets and where the spies were made up: the bugged mansion, the bunkers, the headquarters you can only look at, the memorials to the agents, and the addresses of Bond and Smiley.

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Battle of Britain Bunker

The underground operations room at Uxbridge from which the RAF fought the Battle of Britain, sixty feet down and exactly as it was on 15 September 1940.

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Photo by Neil Owen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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No. 11 Group controlled the fighter squadrons over London and the south-east from this bunker, and the plotting table, the tote board of squadron states and the gallery where the controllers sat have been restored to the afternoon of the battle's climax; Churchill watched from the gallery on 16 August and said the words about the few on the drive back to Chequers. A modern visitor centre above tells the wider story; the bunker itself is by guided tour down the seventy-six steps.

Where
Wren Avenue, UB10 0GG
Nearest station
Uxbridge · 14 min walk

Hours

Monday10:00 – 16:30
Tuesday10:00 – 16:30
Wednesday10:00 – 16:30
Thursday10:00 – 16:30
Friday10:00 – 16:30
Saturday10:00 – 16:30
Sunday10:00 – 16:30

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