Hack Green Nuclear Bunker

Whitchurch Road, CW5 8AL. (01270) 629219.
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Welcome to one of the nations most secret defence sites. Hack Green has played a central role in the defence of Britain for almost sixty years. As you approach Hack Green over the picturesque farmland and rolling Cheshire countryside, it's hard to imagine a more peaceful location, but it was not always like this!

In 1941 Hack Green, a site previously used as a bombing decoy site for the main railway centre at Crewe was chosen to become RAF Hack Green, to protect the land between Birmingham and Liverpool from hostile attack. Thus began the service of Hack Green and the airmen and women of Cheshire in the defence of the nation.

Hack Green 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.

Here you can see the role played by Hack Green during the Cold War, see the equipment that could have been used by the Prime Minister to transmit launch orders in the event of a nuclear attack and the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS). A truly fascinating day out!

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