Visit Bletchley Park
The Bletchley Park Trust manages Bletchley Park, which was previously the top-secret home of the World War II Codebreakers and is now a museum and dynamic heritage site open everyday.
Following WWII, Bletchley Park became home to a number of training schools, including those for teachers, Post Office employees, air traffic control system engineers, and GCHQ employees. Bletchley Park was finally closed in 1987, after a fifty-year relationship with British Intelligence.
There were plans to demolish the entire property in order to build apartments and a supermarket. The Bletchley Archaeological and Historical Society formed a small committee in 1991 with the goal of saving Bletchley Park in honour of the remarkable people whose collective intellects changed the course of WWII, and so that the storey could be preserved for future generations’ education and enjoyment.
The group convinced Milton Keynes Council to designate the majority of Bletchley Park as a conservation area in 1992. The Bletchley Park Trust was established, and in 1994, HRH The Duke of Kent, the Trust’s Chief Patron, opened the site to the public as a museum. In June 1999, the Trust was granted a 250-year leasehold of the Park’s main historic parts, which was followed in 2009 by a successful bid for Heritage Lottery Fund financing. With over 250,000 visitors each year, Bletchley Park is now a self-sustaining historic visitor destination, and more buildings are being restored and accessible to the public.
