What is Bletchley Park?
{{Infobox museum |name = Bletchley Park |image = Bletchley Park Mansion.jpg |caption = The Mansion in 2017 |map_type = UK England |map_relief = 1 |map_size = |map_caption = Location in [[England]] |map dot label = <small>Bletchley<br />Park</small> |coordinates = {{coord|51.9965|-0.7428|display = inline,title}} |established = 1938 (as a code-breaking centre); 1993 (as a museum) |location = [[Bletchley]], [[Milton Keynes]], [[Buckinghamshire]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]] |type = |visitors = |director = Iain Standen |curator = |publictransit = [[Bletchley railway station]] |website = {{url|www.bletchleypark.org.uk}} }} '''Bletchley Park''' is an [[estate]] in [[Milton Keynes]], [[Buckinghamshire]], [[England]]. It was the site of the [[United Kingdom]]'s main [[codebreaking]] team during [[World War II]]. Now, Bletchley Park is home to the National Codes Centre and [[The National Museum of Computing]]. The [[Government Communications Headquarters|Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS)]] and ''Station X'', a secret radio interception station, was also at Bletchley Park. The information gained by workers at Bletchley Park was very important for the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] war effort. In 1939, in [[Warsaw]], the Polish military showed French and British intelligence agents their [[cryptanalysis]] of the [[Enigma (machine)|Enigma]]. They promised each delegation a Polish-built Enigma. Having an actual Enigma machine, and knowing how to use it, was a much-needed start for the British work at Bletchley Park. [[Dilly Knox]] and [[Alan Turing]] were later joined by many other codebreakers and engineering staff. The high-level intelligence produced at Bletchley Park codenamed [[Ultra]], gave crucial help to the Allied war effort. It was vital during the [[Battle of the Atlantic]], when the German [[U-boat]] [[submarine]] fleet sank merchant shipping in an attempt to starve [[Britain]] of supplies. [[Winston Ch