A Bletchley Park private tour from London is the perfect way to discover the top-secret home of the WWII codebreakers. Visit Bletchley Park on a 6-hour private tour from London that includes a professional guide and luxury transportation. Alternatively, choose to combine a private tour of Bletchley with a visit to WW2 sites or nearby stately homes such as Althorp House or Hatfield House.
Bletchley park Private Tour
Bletchley Park was the home of the World War Two codebreakers producing intelligence that had a profound impact on the outcome of the war. The codes of many countries were broken at this top-secret site, including messages from the German Enigma Machine. Wander through fascinating exhibitions, galleries and learn about the people who worked here, including Alan Turing. Highlights of a private tour of Bletchley Park including seeing the huts where the codebreakers worked on deciphering information, the Bombe machines that helped crack the Enigma codes and The Mansion which houses temporary and permanent exhibitions. Our private tours from London includes an experienced tour guide and transportation in a number of different vehicle sizes.
Places Nearby Bletchley Park
There are several nearby stately homes that would make an excellent addition to a Bletchley Park private tour from London. Alternatively, enquire about visiting other WW2 sites in the area.
- Althorp House, a stately home that houses one of the finest collections of art, furniture and ceramics in the world. This includes works by Rubens, Reynolds, Lely, Gainsborough and Van Dyck. The house was built in the 16th Century by the Spencer Family and is surrounded by a majestic estate
- Hatfield House is a Jacobean house built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, the first Earl of Salisbury. Highlights include the King James Drawing Room, the Rainbow Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I and over 42 acres of beautiful gardens
- Woburn Abbey and Gardens, currently the home of the 15th Duke and Duchess of Bedford and their children. Highlights include over 250 works of art, the unique grotto, State Rooms and 28 acres of gardens.
Sample itineraries:
Here are a few ways of taking a Bletchley Park private tour from London, combining a visit with other nearby attractions
- Bletchley Park (6 hours)
- Bletchley Park & Althorp House (9-10 hours)
- Bletchley Park & Hatfield House (9-10 hours)
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About Bletchley Park
Codebreaking at Bletchley Park first began in September 1938 when a small group of people, including members of MI6 and the Government Code and Cypher School (GC & CS) moved into the mansion. Over the course of the war its importance grew, and numerous huts were built. By 1944, around ten thousand people were working at Bletchley and its associated outstations.
Codebreaking Huts 3 and 6 have been carefully restored to resemble how the site looked during World War II, and include interactive exhibits, projected images and authentic set dressings. It was in these huts that Enigma messages were decrypted, translated and analyzed for vital intelligence.
Alan Turing, one of the most innovative thinkers of the 20th Century, oversaw and inspired the effort to decrypt cyphers generated by Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine at Bletchley. Turing’s story inspired the 2014 movie The Imitation Game.
The work at Bletchley also had a profound impact on computing, with the development of the world’s first electronic computer, the Colussus.
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