Hanslope Park

[5] Robin Watts owned the house until 1939, when it was bought by Lord Hesketh who handed it over to the War Office when it was requisitioned in 1941.

[3] In the Second World War the Radio Security Service was based at Hanslope Park.

[6] The mathematician and cryptologist Alan Turing worked there in the latter part of the war on secure speech "scrambling".

[7] Today HMGCC researches, designs, develops and produces communications systems, equipment and related hardware and software.

[10] In 2014, following reporting by the Guardian,[11] a group of journalists were allowed to visit the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's archives at Hanslope Park, and briefed on the issues relating to the declassification of the archive material, estimated to comprise roughly 1.2 million documents.