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]

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]

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