Complete List Of Secret Bunkers
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Salcombe, Devon
RAF Bolt Head, or Hope Cove was a World War II airfield and later the site of an R6 ROTOR bunker near Salcombe in Devon. The semi-sunk bunker made up part of the RAF's radar monitoring network.
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Almondsbury, Bristol
No AccessA vast and disused hospital and later mental hospital. The site is in bad condition now-a-days after closing in the 80s. The hospital is known to be haunted by ex-patients, staff and people who have visited the hospital since it's closed.
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Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
Limited AccessA small farming village requisitioned by the War Department in 1943, the residents were evicted and the village has been hidden from the public on Salisbury Plain ever since.
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Brentwood, Essex
Limited AccessA 1950s Air Ministry bunker spread over three floors, accessible from a small cottage, the bunker is now open to the public as the "Secret Nuclear Bunker" museum.
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Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire
No AccessLimpley Stoke is also known as Hayes Wood Quarry, after a 40 year gap this Bath stone quarry has returned to it's former use as a source of stone.
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Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire
Limited AccessLittle Sodbury ROC can be found in a field near New Tyning Lane and the junctions of Horton Hill, just off of the A46.
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Market Deeping, Lincolnshire
Full AccessA former ROC post, complete with a small toilet room and a main room which still has metal bunk beds with sheets. The bunker has suffered some damage but still worth a look.
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Thames Estuary
Limited AccessA stunning collection of fortified towers in the Thames estuary, built during the Second World War. The forts were manned until the late 1950s and were then famously used as a pirate radio studio.
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Corsham, Wiltshire
No AccessNow known by the name MOD Corsham and formerly JSU Corsham (Joint Service Unit) and RAF Rudloe Manor. A large military site which sits directly above the MOD's underground tunnel complex. During the Second World War the underground site made up part of a massive ammunitions depot and the world's largest underground factory. Later these tunnels became a government's emergency relocation site and various communication bunkers were also set up here.
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Neston, Wiltshire
No AccessMonks Park is divided into two sections, one part is still a working stone quarry while the other part was once a Royal Navy storage depot but is now occupied by Leafield Engineering who make components for the defence industry and commercial users.
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Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire
No AccessThis former Bath stone quarry was converted in to a sub-depot of the Central Ammunitions Depot. The site consists of two areas, the main storage area - districts 12 to 18 and connect via a drift, districts 19 and 20. Each storage district was divided up in to numbered storage bays, passage ways were fitted with conveyor to transport crates of ammunition around the mine.
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West End, Southampton, Hampshire
Limited AccessThis abandoned hospital has two parts, the main building is four floors and a smaller building which consists of two floors. Vandals and thieves have destroyed much of what remains of the mental health hospital which closed in 2011.
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Nocton, Lincolnshire
Limited AccessBeautiful burnt out hall, formerly a hospital used by the RAF.
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Bristol
No AccessBristol's Northern Storm-water Interceptor, nicknamed 'The Motherload' by drainers, is a massive storm-water drain which acts as a flood prevention measure for Bristol.
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Dollis Hill, London
No AccessPaddock was Winston Churchill's alternate Cabinet War Room bunker for World War II, constructed in 1939 but only visited once by the Prime Minister before it was abandoned in 1944.
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Bristol
No AccessEx-Royal Mail/Parcel Force sorting depot with connection to Bristol's Temple Meads station.
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Neston, Wiltshire
No AccessPark Lane Quarry is consists of 500 meters of underground workings spread over 100 square-meters, it can be found less than half a mile from larger Ridge Quarry.
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Corsham, Wiltshire
No AccessAlso known as Hartham Park, it was Bath stone until 1939 when it became a temporary naval store, the stores were then transferred to Dean Hill and quarrying continued. In the 80s the quarry became a quarry museum.
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Whitehall, London
No AccessPINDAR is a secure government bunker complex, constructed in the 1990s beneath the Ministry of Defence headquarters on Whitehall in Central London.
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Portland, Dorset
No AccessA single story, underground operations block constructed in 1950 as part of a project to provided complete radar cover for the UK, it went in to operation in 1953. The site is now in private ownership.
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