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A housing development, still in construction as of 2011, next to the Bletchley Park site and taking its name from one of the famous coding machines.

Originally the home of the financier and Liberal MP, Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (1850–1926), the Bletchley Park estate passed out of the Leon family in 1937. During World War II the estate became the site of the UK's main decryption effort, becoming known as Station X. It was here that the codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were decrypted, most important being the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. Some 9,000 people were working at Bletchley Park at the height of the code-breaking efforts, many of the teams being housed in temporary huts designated by numbers - Hut 8, shown here, housed the Bletchley Park team tasked with breaking into German naval wireless traffic encrypted using the Enigma machine. See also. . . . Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image

Originally the home of the financier and Liberal MP, Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (1850–1926), the Bletchley Park estate passed out of the Leon family in 1937. During World War II the estate became the site of the UK's main decryption effort, becoming known as Station X. It was here that the codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were decrypted, most important being the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. Some 9,000 people were working at Bletchley Park at the height of the code-breaking efforts, many of the teams being housed in temporary huts designated by numbers - Hut 8, shown here, housed the Bletchley Park team tasked with breaking into German naval wireless traffic encrypted using the Enigma machine. See also . . . . Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image

Originally the home of the financier and Liberal MP, Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (1850–1926), the Bletchley Park estate passed out of the Leon family in 1937. During World War II the estate became the site of the UK's main decryption effort, becoming known as Station X. It was here that the codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were decrypted, most important being the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. Some 9,000 people were working at Bletchley Park at the height of the code-breaking efforts, many of the teams being housed in temporary huts designated by numbers - Hut 8, shown here, housed the Bletchley Park team tasked with breaking into German naval wireless traffic encrypted using the Enigma machine. See also . . . . Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image

Originally the home of the financier and Liberal MP, Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (1850–1926), the Bletchley Park estate passed out of the Leon family in 1937. During World War II the estate became the site of the UK's main decryption effort, becoming known as Station X. It was here that the codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were decrypted, most important being the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. Some 9,000 people were working at Bletchley Park at the height of the codebreaking efforts, many of the teams being housed in temporary huts designated by numbers - Hut 6 (partly shrouded by a tarpaulin) housed the team tasked with the breaking into German Army and Air Force Enigma enciphered wireless traffic. The adjacent Hut 3 (painted pink) handled the translation and intelligence analysis of the raw decrypts provided by Hut 6. See also . . . . Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image

Originally the home of the financier and Liberal MP, Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (1850–1926), the Bletchley Park estate passed out of the Leon family in 1937. During World War II the estate became the site of the UK's main decryption effort, becoming known as Station X. It was here that the codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were decrypted, most important being the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. Some 9,000 people were working at Bletchley Park at the height of the code-breaking efforts, many of the teams being housed in temporary huts designated by numbers - Hut 6 (partly shrouded by a tarpaulin) housed the team tasked with the breaking into German Army and Air Force Enigma enciphered wireless traffic. The adjacent Hut 3 (just visible, painted pink) handled the translation and intelligence analysis of the raw decrypts provided by Hut 6. See also . . . . Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image

Originally the home of the financier and Liberal MP, Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (1850–1926), the Bletchley Park estate passed out of the Leon family in 1937. During World War II the estate became the site of the UK's main decryption effort, becoming known as Station X. It was here that the codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were decrypted, most important being the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. Some 9,000 people were working at Bletchley Park at the height of the code breaking efforts, many of the teams being housed in temporary huts designated by numbers - Hut 6 housed the team tasked with the breaking into German Army and Air Force Enigma enciphered wireless traffic. The adjacent Hut 3, shown here, handled the translation and intelligence analysis of the raw decrypts provided by Hut 6. See also . . . Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image

Originally the home of the financier and Liberal MP, Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (1850–1926), the Bletchley Park estate passed out of the Leon family in 1937. During World War II the estate became the site of the UK's main decryption effort, becoming known as Station X. It was here that the codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were decrypted, most important being the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. Some 9,000 people were working at Bletchley Park at the height of the code-breaking efforts, many of the teams being housed in temporary huts designated by numbers. See also . . . Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image

The museum houses a rebuilt Colossus computer alongside an exhibition of the most complex code cracking activities performed at the Park, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Museum_of_Computing Website: http://www.tnmoc.org/

Colossus was the world's first electronic digital computer that was at all programmable. The Colossus computers were used by British codebreakers during World War II to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Without them, the Allies would have been deprived of the very valuable intelligence that was obtained from reading the vast quantity of encrypted high-level telegraphic messages between the German High Command (OKW) and their army commands throughout occupied Europe. Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean operations and calculations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer