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Secret Underground City

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Stories of secret underground bunkers, refuges and even cities have always fascinated me, so it was quite a suprise to find that there is one not too far from me.

100 feet beneath the village of Corsham in Wiltshire, England, is a secret subterranean cold war city called Burlington, which the British Government was to have retreated to in the event of a nuclear war.

Immense and impressive as it was, and still is to some extent, it somehow doesn’t seem adequate.

Interactive map of Burlington

One of the escalators connecting the city with the surface.