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MOD Corsham: Prime Minister's Rooms and Operations Rooms is a Cold War underground complex located near the village of Corsham in Wiltshire. The site comprises a series of reinforced subterranean chambers constructed during the 1950s to provide secure accommodation and command facilities for the Prime Minister and senior government officials in the event of nuclear attack. The complex reflects the strategic thinking of the period and the British state's commitment to ensuring continuity of government during the Cold War. The underground rooms remain substantially intact as evidence of mid-twentieth-century civil defence architecture and planning.
MoD CORSHAM: Prime Minister's Rooms and Operations Rooms is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1409131. View the official record →
MOD Corsham: Prime Minister's Rooms and Operations Rooms is a Cold War underground complex located near the village of Corsham in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1409131.
MoD CORSHAM: Prime Minister's Rooms and Operations Rooms is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1409131.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including MoD CORSHAM: Quarry Working Areas in West Lung, Spring Quarry (0.9 km), Three bowl barrows 160m south west of Hatt House (2.5 km), Round House (2.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of MoD CORSHAM: Prime Minister's Rooms and Operations Rooms's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
MoD CORSHAM: Prime Minister's Rooms and Operations Rooms stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.