Kelvedon Hatch

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Kelvedon Hatch

Coordinates: 51.6687° N 0.2718° E

Kelvedon Hatch (United Kingdom)
Kelvedon Hatch
OS grid reference TQ572991
Parish Kelvedon Hatch
District Brentwood
Shire county Essex
Region East
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BRENTWOOD
Postcode district CM15
Dial code 01277
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
UK Parliament Brentwood and Ongar
European Parliament East of England
List of places

Kelvedon Hatch is a village and civil parish in south Essex, England. It is situated just north of Pilgrims Hatch, to the north of Brentwood.

It is home to the largest and deepest cold war bunker open to the public in Southeast England. Hidden in a wood off the A128 Ongar, Brentwood Road, is a small bungalow which hides a three floored bunker complex 125ft underground, in which 600 people would have been confined behind blast proof doors in the event of a nuclear war. The bunker was sold in the 1990s and is now a tourist attraction and film location.

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