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York Cold War Bunker

Holgate, York

Where volunteers would have tracked nuclear explosions and fallout.

This semi-sunken bunker in a York suburb was the headquarters of the Royal Observer Corps for the region. In a nuclear war, around 60 volunteers would have shut themselves in and worked out where bombs had fallen and where the deadly fallout was drifting.

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When
Built 1961
Where
53.9570, -1.1110
Group
Secret bunkers & war sites

Visiting

English Heritage, open for guided tours.

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