Backpacking in The United Kingdom: Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker

April 14 2023 | Tagged: United Kingdom
Visiting the former government-owned Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker near Nantwich, Cheshire.
Having visited the Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker deep in the Essex countryside, little over a month ago, the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker near Nantwich in Cheshire is the latest in this dark tourism cold war series.
During the 2nd World War Hack Green was used as a StarFish site which was a decoy city where controlled fires were used to simulate a burning city to mislead the Luftwaffe and divert them away from their intended targets, in this case, the target being nearby Crewe, which was and still is, a major railway junction.

In the 1950s the site was used as a ROTOR station, just like at Kelvedon Hatch, ROTOR being an air defence radar system.
It was eventually abandoned until the Home Office acquired the site and turned it into a Secret Nuclear Bunker which would have been used as a Regional Government HQ had a nuclear war broken out.

In the early 1990s, as the threat of a nuclear attack diminished, the site was again abandoned until it was bought and turned into a Cold war themed museum.

It is now operated by the Hack Green Cold War & Radar Museum Trust.
The Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker was where an 'elite' team of civil servants would 'live', 40 feet underground and communicate with other
The Arms Race, the need for the West and the East to keep up with each other so that no one pressed the button.

Had one side launched an attack, within minutes the other side would have done the same and well, what was the point of that.
Entrance to the ​Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
Admission Prices to the ​Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
Getting a snack at the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker NAAFI CANTEEN

How to get to the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker:

The Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker is 6km from Nantwich, Cheshire.

I took a train from Milton Keynes to Crewe and then a bus to Nantwich.
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Unfortunately, there is no public transport to anywhere near to Hack Green so I walked with my thumb out but to no avail. It took me 1 hr 5 minutes. Mostly in the rain.
French Lane, Baddington, Nantwich, Cheshire, UK. CW5 8BL.

Hours
Open 10am to 4pm. 

Closed Mondays & Tuesdays except school holidays and bank holidays.
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Check out the official website: https://www.hackgreen.co.uk/.

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