Hanslope Park is located about half a mile south-east of the village of Hanslope in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Once the manorial estate of the village, it is now owned by the
MI8, or Military Intelligence, Section 8 was a British Military Intelligence group responsible for signals intelligence and was created in 1914. It originally consisted of four sections: MI8, which de
Hanslope Park
…house until 1939, when it was bought by Lord Hesketh who handed it over to the War Office when it was requisitioned in 1941. In the Second World War the Radio Security Service was based at Hanslope Park. The mathematician and cryptologist Alan Turing worked there in the latter part of the war on secure speech "scrambling…
For security reasons, at the start of WWII, personnel employed in the Radio Security Service had to be housed in Wormwood Scrubs Prison