Wavendon Manor Explained

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]

World War II

During World War II the house was a Bombe outstation to the Government Code and Cipher 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]

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wavendon Manor . 2024-06-16 . British Listed Buildings.
  2. Web site: Wavendon Manor . 2024-06-16. Historic England.
  3. Web site: Wavendon Outstation . 2024-06-16.
  4. The Russian Fish with Caviar . . Rezabek . Randy . 1 . 38 . 61–76 . 10.1080/01611194.2013.797046.