Wavendon Manor

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Wavendon Manor is a 16th-century house on Cross End Road, near Wavendon in Buckinghamshire. [1] [2] [3] It is a Grade II listed building. [1] [2] [3]

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World War II

During World War II the house was a Bombe outstation to the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park from March 1941. [3] At the end of that year it housed five Bombes, and the site operated until January 1944, when the fourteen bombes were sent to other sites. [3] Other outstations included Gayhurst, Adstock Manor, Eastcote and Stanmore. [3]

After the war a group from TICOM including Lt. Paul Whitaker brought codebreaking equipment they had captured at Rosenheim, Bavaria, to the manor for testing against Soviet encrypted signals. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Wavendon Manor". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
  2. 1 2 "Wavendon Manor". Historic England . Retrieved 2024-06-16.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Wavendon Outstation" . Retrieved 2024-06-16.
  4. ↑ Rezabek, Randy. "The Russian Fish with Caviar". Cryptologia . 38 (1): 61–76. doi:10.1080/01611194.2013.797046.

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