REGIONAL SEAT OF GOVERNMENT

'Regional Seats of Government' or 'RSG's are underground concrete nuclear bunkers designed to house a small staff of dispersed British government officers during a nuclear war in order to provide a continued government after an attack, in the likely event that central London and the national government had been destroyed.
They were constructed at dispersed locations around the country during the 1950s and after. Many of them have subsequently been openly identified and the sites published.

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Locations

See also

External links

References

Locations

'Regional Seats of Government' were located in the following areas.
'Region 1' (Scotland)
Anstruther Northern Zone,
Bamton Quarry Scottish Central,
Kirknewton East Zone,
East Kilbride West Zone
'Region 2' (North East, Yorkshire + humberside)
Hexham,
Shipton,
'Region 3' (East Midlands)
Skendleby,
Loughborough,
'Region 4' (East Anglia)
Bawburgh,
Hertford,
Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker
Bedford (1990s)
'Region 5' (Greater London)
'Region 6' (South East)
Crowborough,
Basingtoke,
'Region 7' (South West)
Cheltenham,
Hope Cove,
Chilmark (1990s)
'Region 8' (Wales)
Bridgend,
Wrexham (1990s)
'Region 9' (West Midlands)
Drakelow,
Swynnerton,
Lawford Heath (1990s)
'Region 10' (North West)
Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
Southport,
Goosnargh (1990s)
'Region 11' (Northern Ireland)
Armagh

See also

★ Region 6 War Room

★ Sub-Regional Control (SRC)

★ Sub-Regional Headquarters (SRHQ)

★ Regional Government Headquarters (RGHQ)

★ ROC Posts

External links

★ Subterranea Britannica (Web site concerning UK underground secret sites.)

References

★ Peter Laurie, ''Beneath the City Streets'', Granada Publishing Ltd, 1979, ISBN 0-586-05055-8. (First published 1970, Penguin Books.)

★ Wayne Cocrot, Roger Thomas, ''Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989, English Heritage, 2003, ISBN 978-1-873592-81-6.