Building record 0950500000 - Adstock Manor

During WW2 Adstock Manor was used as an outstation for Bletchley Park (Station X) for code breaking (B1).
Improved versions of the ‘Bombes’ known as ‘Jumbos’ had been introduced and to protect from German raids, they were dispersed to outstations at Wavendon and Adstock. By the end of the war there were just under 2000 bombe operators of whom 1676 were Wrens at 6 locations (B2).
A World War II Bombe Outstation to the Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park. The five Bombe outstations Wavendon, Adstock Manor, Gayhurst, Eastcote and Stanmore operated Bombe machines which were used in the breaking of the Enigma Code. By the end of the war the outstations operated over 200 Bombes operated on an inter-service basis with the installation and maintenance completed mainly by RAF and civilian personnel, and operated by WRNS.'OSA' (Outstation Adstock) was opened in March 1941 in the stables and out buildings to Adstock Manor. By the end of that year Adstock housed five Bombes (B3-4).