Hut 6
Hut 6 was a wartime section of the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, Britain, tasked with the solution of German Army and Air Force Enigma machine cyphers. Hut 8, by contrast, attacked Naval Enigma.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bletchley Park and Hut 8.
Bletchley Park
Museum
Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War.
Hut 8
Museum
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park tasked with solving German naval Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing.
Hut 3
Museum
Hut 3 was a section of the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during World War II. It retained the name for its functions when it moved into Block D.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bletchley and Water Eaton.
Bletchley
Town
Photo: Tom walker, CC BY 3.0.
Bletchley is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, in the south-west of the city, split between the civil parishes of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford and West Bletchley, which In 2011 had a combined population of 37,114.
Water Eaton
Suburb
Photo: Mr Biz, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Water Eaton is an area of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England and in the civil parish of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford. It is to the south of Fenny Stratford and contiguous with it.
Fenny Stratford
Town
Photo: Cnyborg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fenny Stratford is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, a city in Buckinghamshire, England. It is administered by Bletchley and Fenny Stratford, a civil parish under the Milton Keynes City Council.
Hut 6
- Type: Museum
- Description: unit of Bletchley Park decryption center
- Categories: building, tourism, hut, and tourist attraction
- Location: West Bletchley, Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.99747° or 51° 59′ 51″ northLongitude
-0.7421° or 0° 44′ 32″ westOpen location code
9C3XX7W5+X5OpenStreetMap ID
way 36706280OpenStreetMap feature
building=hutOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q5950122
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to German—“Hut 6” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكوخ ٦ (تعمية)”
- Arabic: “الكوخ 6 (تعمية)”
- Arabic: “الكوخ 6”
- Arabic: “كوخ ٦”
- Arabic: “كوخ 6”
- Catalan: “Hut 6”
- German: “Hut 6”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Teleprinter Hall and Hut 1.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hut 6”. Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.