2014

SP8633 : The lake at Bletchley Park

taken 9 years ago, near to Bletchley, Milton Keynes, England

The lake at Bletchley Park
The lake at Bletchley Park
Looking across the lake towards the front of the Mansion at Bletchley Park.
Bletchley Park

Originally the home of the financier and Liberal MP, Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (1850–1926), the Bletchley Park Mansion evolved in line with its owner's eccentric tastes into a hotch-potch of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque architectural styles. The estate, which was sold by the Leon family in 1937, was to become the centre of the UK's main decryption effort during WWII, and it was here that the codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were decrypted, among them the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines.

[Credit for above paragraph goes to Ian Petticrew Link ]

For many more photos of the site, see Basher Eyre's portfolio: Link


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This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Bletchley Park Mansion [56] · Bletchley Park Lake [37] Title Clusters: · The lake at Bletchley Park [7] ·
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SP8633, 519 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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David P Howard   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 23 October, 2014   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 24 October, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 8651 3390 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:59.8090N 0:44.4817W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SP 8655 3392
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West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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