Bletchley Park Regeneration The story of Hut 8 – from state secret to national treasure. As its name implies, structurally speaking, it's just a hut. It’s a single-storey wooden building with a pitched roof, sitting on a brick base in the grounds of a rather odd Victorian mansion, near a railway line in North Buckinghamshire. But it’s not just any hut. It’s Hut 8 and it was here roughly 70 years ago that the fate of the world hung for several perilous months. Hut 8, a Grade 2 listed building, is a key part of the story of Bletchley Park. Under the leadership of the mathematical genius Alan Turing, teams of cryptographers working under conditions of absolute secrecy decoded German naval messages that had been intercepted.Bletchley Park, known as Station X, was probably the best-kept secret

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