Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker 2025
Hidden deep in the Cheshire countryside, the bunker stayed secret for more than 50 years. Now the blast doors are open and you can discover the labyrinth of rooms and authentic equipment used to run this defence region in the event of a National Emergency.
Contacts
Operator: Hack Green Cold War & Radar Museum Trust
Address: Hack House Lane Baddington Nantwich Cheshire CW5 8AL
- Telephone: 01270 623 353
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- Website: View website
Open Days & Times
Wed-Sun & BHol 1000-1600. Daily in school hols. Visit website or facebook for more details.
Travel
- By Rail: Nantwich / 3 miles
Facilities
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Hack Green played a central role in the defence of Britain for almost 60 years, with its picturesque farmland and rolling Cheshire countryside it is hard to imagine a more peaceful location, but it was not always like this!
It was one of 21 fixed Radar Stations in the country and one of only 12 fully equipped with searchlights and fighter aircraft control. In one of the cabinets in the museum you can see some of the original communications equipment used by Searchlight Command.
Later it became a ROTOR station, with a compliment of 18 officers, 26 NCOs and 224 corporals and aircraftsmen. 1958 brought yet another change when it became part of the United Kingdom Air Traffic Control System, one of four joint civil/military Air Traffic Control Units. The increasing use of airways and the advent of the Boeing 707 entering UK airspace at 35,000ft started to create a problem for the RAF. The solution was to establish joint air corridor radar control centres. It was in this role providing a safe radar assisted crossing service for both military and civil aircraft, that Hack Green was to see its final service as an RAF station. The station was closed in 1966, its role having been transferred to RAF Lindholme in south Yorkshire.
