3 real historical locations · United Kingdom
The story of Alan Turing — the Cambridge mathematician who led the team that broke the German Enigma cipher at Bletchley Park, arguably shortening the war by years — and his subsequent persecution for being gay. Benedict Cumberbatch brought Turing's story to global audiences.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning United Kingdom.
Alan Turing and the codebreakers work to crack Enigma at Bletchley Park. The intelligence advantage that helped win the war.
At its peak Bletchley Park employed 10,000 people, most of them women. The intelligence produced — codenamed ULTRA — is estimated to have shortened the war by two to four years. The work remained classified until 1974.
View location →The cramped wooden hut where Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman worked to break Enigma — and where the Bombe machine first cracked a day's settings.
Hut 6 at Bletchley Park was the centre of Enigma-breaking from 1940. Turing's Bombe machine electromechanically searched for Enigma settings. The intelligence product — codenamed Ultra — is estimated to have shortened...
View location →Decrypted Enigma intelligence rushed here to the Naval Intelligence Division — and the agonizing decisions about what to act on without revealing the secret.
Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty received Bletchley decrypts carefully rationed to protect the Ultra secret. Admiral Godfrey and his assistant Ian Fleming (later creator of James Bond) ran the division. The ethical...
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