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Fallout Shelters Near Me (UK Edition)

Ash Tales

by Ryan Law

Let’s face it—when it comes to the end of the world, we all imagine we’ll be the cool-headed ones: bug-out bags packed and enough canned beans to survive anything short of a direct hit. But when the beans don’t quite cut it, your imagination starts reaching for something sturdier—a nuclear fallout shelter.

It might surprise you how thoroughly Britain prepared for catastrophe. From Cornwall’s windswept coast to the misty hills of Scotland, the country is scattered with Royal Observer Corps posts, radar stations, government headquarters and emergency control centres. That suspicious mound beside a field or anonymous council basement may once have formed part of Britain’s plan for surviving nuclear war.

We have brought 246 recorded locations together so you can search the archive, explore each county and find the historical site nearest to you. Many have been demolished, sealed, flooded or repurposed; others are museums, private property or the sort of concrete chamber that looks much better in a grainy photograph. A few even appear for sale, if you have the cash and fancy running the world’s most apocalyptic Airbnb.

These are historical sites, not working public shelters. Coordinates are approximate. Never trespass or enter an unsafe structure, and do not rely on this map during an emergency. Follow any official UK Government Emergency Alert and instructions from the emergency services. Stay curious—and make sure yours is a bunker story you return safely to tell.

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Historical UK bunkers by county

Prefer the old-school approach? Browse the full text archive below. Every county has its own lightweight interactive map, while every recorded name remains available even when JavaScript is disabled.

Nuclear Bunkers in Aberdeenshire

  • Aberdeen Tertowie House Grampian Regional Council Emergency Centre
  • Buchan R7 Remote Type 7 Radar
  • Buchan Rotor Radar Station
  • Inverbervie Rotor Radar Station
  • Schoolhill ROC Sector Control
  • Stonehaven Kincardine and Deeside District Council Emergency Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in Argyll and Bute

  • Kilchiaran Rotor Radar Station
  • Oban ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Ayre

  • Snaefell Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in Bedford

  • Bedford ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

  • Christchurch Hampshire County Council and County Borough of Bournemouth Area Control

Nuclear Bunkers in Buckinghamshire

  • Aylesbury Buckinghamshire County Emergency Centre
  • Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire County Standby Emergency Centre
  • Chiltern District Council Emergency Centre
  • RAF Daws Hill
  • Wilton Park Eastern Comman War Headquarters and Armed Forces HQ 5

Nuclear Bunkers in Caithness

  • Wick Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in Cambridgeshire

  • Cambridge Regional War Room RSG and RGHQ
  • Cambridgeshire South Cambridgeshire District Emergency Centre
  • RAF Alconbury Cold War Bunkers

Nuclear Bunkers in Cardiff

  • Cardiff Coryton Regional War Room
  • Cardiff Landaff Sub Control
  • Landaff Court WW2 Control Cardiff
  • Wenallt AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Cheshire East

  • Hack Green Rotor Radar Station and RGHQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Cheshire West and Chester

  • Ellesmere Port Emergency Centre
  • Frodsham AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in City of Bristol

  • Bedminster Sub Control
  • Brislington Regional War Room

Nuclear Bunkers in City of Leicester

  • Leicester Severn Trent Water Emergency Control Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in Conwy

  • Aberconwy Emergency Control Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in Cornwall

  • Bodmin District Council Emergency Centre
  • Coswarth South West Water Emergency Control Centre
  • Portreath Reporting Post
  • St Austel Restormel Borough Emergency Centre
  • Treleaver Rotor Radar Station
  • Truro Cornwall County Emergency Centre
  • Truro ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in County Antrim

  • Belfast Mount Eden Park Regional War Room
  • Lisburn AAOR and ROC Group HQ
  • Murlough Bay Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in County Down

  • Belfast Stormont Sub Control

Nuclear Bunkers in County Durham

  • Cold Hesledon Rotor Radar Station
  • Durham ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Cumberland

  • Carlisle ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Denbighshire

  • Prestatyn Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in Derbyshire

  • Elvaston AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Devon

  • Exeter Borough Control
  • Hope Cove Rotor Radar Station and RGHQ
  • Poltimore Park Exeter ROC Group HQ
  • Totnes South West Water Emergency Control Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in Dorset

  • Portland Rotor Radar Station
  • Ridgeway Hill AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Dundee City

  • Craigiebarns Dundee ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in East Riding of Yorkshire

  • Bempton Rotor Radar Station
  • Cottingham Yorkshire Water Emergency Control Centre
  • Holmpton Rotor Radar Station
  • Skirlaugh Holderness District Council Emergency Centre
  • Wawne AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in East Sussex

  • Beachy Head Rotor Radar Station
  • Brede Southern Water Emergency Control Centre
  • Crowborough RGHQ
  • Fairlight Rotor Radar Station
  • Hastings Borough Council Control
  • Wartling GCI Radar Station
  • Wartling Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in Essex

  • Brightlingsea Urban District Council Control
  • Castlepoint Borough Emergency Centre
  • Chelmsford Essex County Emergency Centre
  • Colchester ROC Group HQ
  • Harwich RNXS Emergency Port Control
  • Kelvedon Hatch Rotor SOC and RGHQ
  • Maldon District Council Emergency Centre
  • Mistley AAOR
  • RAF North Weald SOC and Epping Forest District Council Emergency Centre
  • Saffron Walden Uttlesford District Council Emergency Centre
  • Vange AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Falkirk

  • Falkirk Civil Defence Headquarters

Nuclear Bunkers in Fife

  • Anstruther Rotor Radar Station and Scotland North Zone HQ
  • Burntisland Railway Control Centre
  • Pitreavie Castle Combined HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Gloucestershire

  • Ullenwood AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Greater London

  • Bexley Emergency Centre
  • Camden Borough Control
  • Cheam South West London Group Control
  • Chislehurst South East London Group Control
  • Dagenham Borough Control
  • Dagenham WW2 Civil Defence Control Centre
  • East Ham Borough Control
  • Edmonton Borough Control Site 2
  • Finchley Borough Control
  • Finsbury Borough Control
  • Greenwich Borough Control
  • Hackney WW2 ARP Control and Post War Borough Control
  • Hayes Sub Area Control
  • Hillingdon Borough Control
  • Kingsway Telephone Exchange
  • Middlesex County Control
  • Mill Hill North West London Group Control
  • Northolt Sub Control
  • Paddington Borough Control
  • Pear Tree House London South East Group War Headquarters
  • Richmond Borough Emergency Centre
  • Southall London North West Group War HQ
  • Southwark Borough Control
  • St Pancras Borough Control
  • Stoke Newington Borough Control
  • Stoke Newington Borough Control and Hackney Borough Control 2nd Site
  • Stratford Newham Borough Council Control
  • Tottenham Borough Control
  • Tower Hamlets Borough Control
  • Uxbridge AAOR
  • Wandsworth Borough Control
  • Wanstead South East London Group Control
  • Woolwich Sub Control

Nuclear Bunkers in Greater Manchester

  • Guardian Telephone Exchange
  • Manchester Co-op Tunnels
  • Oldham Civic Centre
  • Stockport BT Repeater
  • Worsley AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Guernsey

  • Guernsey Civil Defence Headquarters

Nuclear Bunkers in Hampshire

  • Gosport Borough Control
  • Portsmouth BT Repeater
  • Sopley Rotor Radar Station
  • Twyford Southern Water Emergency Control Centre
  • Winchester ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Hartlepool

  • Seaton Snook Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in Hertfordshire

  • Hemel Hempstead Dacorum Borough Council Emergency Centre
  • Hertford Sovereign House SRHQ
  • St Albans City And District Council Emergency Centre
  • Watford Roc Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Highlands

  • Faraid Head Rotor Radar Station
  • Gairloch AAOR
  • Inverness Raigmore Highland Emergency Centre
  • Inverness ROC HQ
  • Portree bunker

Nuclear Bunkers in Inverclyde

  • Inverkip AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Isle of Wight

  • Ventnor Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in Kent

  • Chatham Southern Water Emergency Control Centre
  • Dartford Emergency Centre
  • Maidstone ROC Group HQ
  • Maidstone Springfields Kent County Emergency Centre
  • Queenborough Sub Control
  • Sandwich Rotor Radar Station
  • Sheerness RNXS Emergency Port Control
  • Tunbridge Wells Regional War Room

Nuclear Bunkers in Lancashire

  • Lancashire County Emergency Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in Lincolnshire

  • Fiskerton Lincoln ROC Group HQ
  • Langtoft Rotor Radar Station
  • Lincolnshire County Emergency Centre
  • Skendleby Rotor Radar Station and RGHQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Liverpool

  • Birkenhead Wirral Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre
  • Bootle Merseyside County Main Emergency Centre 2nd Site
  • Liverpool Walker Gallery Merseyside County Main Emergency Centre 1st Site
  • Southport Merseyside County Standby Emergency Centre
  • Southport Sefton Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in Luton

  • Luton County Borough Control

Nuclear Bunkers in Medway

  • Fort Bridgewoods AAOR
  • Gillingham Borough Control

Nuclear Bunkers in Norfolk

  • Bawburgh Rotor SOC and RGHQ
  • East Dereham Breckland District Emergency Centre
  • Kings Lynn Joint Norfolk County Standby and West Norfolk District Emergency Centre
  • Norwich Broadland District Council Emergency Centre
  • Norwich ROC Group HQ
  • Trimingham Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in North Lanarkshire

  • Uddingston BT Repeater

Nuclear Bunkers in North of Tyne

  • Gosforth AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in North Yorkshire

  • Fylingdales Long Range Radar Station
  • Goldsborough Rotor Radar Station
  • Shipton Rotor Radar SOC and RGHQ
  • Staxton Wold Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in Northumberland

  • Blyth Area Control
  • Boulmer Rotor Radar Station
  • Hexham Cold Store and RGHQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Nottinghamshire

  • Nottingham Regional War Room and RSG

Nuclear Bunkers in Oxfordshire

  • Banbury Cherwell District Council Emergency Centre
  • Oxford County Emergency Centre
  • Oxford ROC Group HQ
  • RAF Upper Heyford
  • Witney West Oxfordshire Emergency Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in Pembrokeshire

  • Llanion Barracks AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Perth and Kinross

  • Cultybraggan RGHQ
  • Tayside Regional Council Emergency Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in Redcar and Cleveland

  • Eston Grangetown Area Control

Nuclear Bunkers in Rhondda Cynon Taf

  • Llwynypia Rhondda Cynon Taff Joint Emergency Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in Scottish Borders

  • Crosslaw Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in Shropshire

  • Shrewsbury Armed Forces HQ 9
  • Shrewsbury ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Sir Gaerfyrddin / Carmarthenshire

  • Carmarthen County Council Control Bunker
  • Carmarthen South Wales ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Somerset

  • Bristol Waterworks Emergency Control Centre
  • West Myne Rotor Radar Station
  • Yeovil ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in South Ayrshire

  • Ayr ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in South Gloucestershire

  • Lansdown AAOR and Bristol ROC Group HQ
  • Thornbury North Avon District Council Emergency Centre
  • Warmley BT Repeater

Nuclear Bunkers in South Lanarkshire

  • East Kilbride Western Zone Regional War Room
  • Torrance House AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in South Yorkshire

  • Conisbrough AAOR
  • Rotherham County Borough Control

Nuclear Bunkers in Staffordshire

  • Stafford Staffordshire County Emergency Centre
  • Swynnerton RGHQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Stockton-on-Tees

  • Kirklevington Hall AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Suffolk

  • Bawdsey Rotor Radar Station
  • Hopton Rotor Radar Station
  • Ipswich USW Autovon Telephone Exchange
  • Lowestoft Sub Control

Nuclear Bunkers in Surrey

  • Godalming Waverley District Council Emergency Centre
  • Guildford Stoughton Barracks SRHQ
  • Merstham AAOR
  • Reigate Borough Emergency Centre and Surrey County Standby Emergency Centre
  • Shalford Thames Water Control Centre
  • Walton on Thames Sub Control

Nuclear Bunkers in Swansea

  • Swansea West Cross AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Warwickshire

  • Brinklow Heath Protected BBC Transmitter Building
  • Lawford Heath Coventry ROC Group HQ
  • Stoneleigh Park AAOR
  • Warwick County Emergency Centre

Nuclear Bunkers in West Berkshire

  • RAF Greenham Common

Nuclear Bunkers in West Lothian

  • Kirknewton Regional War Room and Scottish Eastern Zone HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in West Midlands

  • Birmingham Anchor Exchange
  • Birmingham Severn Trent Water Emergency Control Centre
  • Lyndon Green BT Repeater
  • Queslett BT Repeater
  • Shirley Regional War Room
  • Solihull Borough Emergency Centre
  • Wylde Green AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in West Sussex

  • Chichester West Sussex County Emergency Centre
  • Crawley Borough Emergency Centre
  • Horsham District Council Emergency Centre
  • Horsham ROC Group HQ
  • Truleigh Hill Rotor Radar Station

Nuclear Bunkers in West Yorkshire

  • Birkenshaw AAOR
  • Brighouse West Yorkshire Sub County Control
  • Rothwell Haigh Grid Control Centre
  • Yeadon Leeds ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Westmorland and Furness

  • Abbottswood AAOR

Nuclear Bunkers in Wiltshire

  • Salisbury Urban District Control

Nuclear Bunkers in Wokingham

  • Berkshire Country Council Emergency Control Bunker
  • Henley WW2 Shadow Factory and Armed Forces HQ
  • Reading Regional War Room

Nuclear Bunkers in Worcestershire

  • BBC Wood Norton
  • Drakelow WW2 Shadow Factory RSG and RGHQ

Nuclear Bunkers in Wrexham

  • Borras North Wales ROC Group HQ

Nuclear Bunkers in York

  • Acomb York ROC Group HQ