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GCHQ's location.

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From: Simon Read
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:02
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No big secret!

GCHQ is near Cheltenham. It's an enormous group of buildings,
shouldn't be hard to find. I think there are even signposts.

Bletchley Park is a stately home, I think, I've always assumed
that it was near Bletchley, Bucks. But perhaps that's too simple.
Bletchley Park was the wartime codebreaking centre, AM Turing and
all that. Hasn't it become the headquarters of the IBM research
division?

Cheltenham is about halfway between Bristol and Birmingham (i.e.
on the left hand side of mainland Britain). Bletchley, Bucks.
is about 40 miles North of London (i.e. it would be on the right
hand side of Britain if it didn't bulge out so much on the
right). I suppose the distance between them is only about 40
miles, but that's a long way on this tiny Isalnd of ours.

I wouldn't have thought there would be a museum on the site at
Cheltenham. I haven't heard of a crypto museum in Britain. If
anyone can put me right I'd like to know. I would be fascinating
to go.
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