Every UK nuclear fallout shelter listed as WW3 nears is there one near you?
We might all need to seek shelter at some point soon (cheers, Donald Trump), and we've put together a full list of locations you can find across the UK where safety is on hand
10:32, 04 Mar 2026Updated 11:06, 04 Mar 2026
This bunker in Nantwich could be a decent place to live if war happened(Image: Getty Images)
With World War 3 seemingly on its way, many Brits are thinking about where they can go to make sure they'll survive. And while your local IKEA or football stadium might seem like a decent place to seek shelter, there are many, many better options to look for safety should Iran or even Russia take aim at the UK.
Thanks to the apocalypse experts Ash Tales, a full list of nuclear bunkers across the UK now exists, and there are far more than many might have thought 171 to be exact.
Expert Ryan Law, who compiled the list, also offered some excellent advice on what you should do if you can't get to one of the many bunkers listed.
There are loads of bunkers UK-wide(Image: Getty Images)
He said: Dont stay where the bombs might fall. It sounds obvious, but its worth repeating. If you live next to an army base, major city, or one of those overly suspicious industrial sites, maybe consider relocating at the first sign of trouble.
Anywhere with lots of people or important-looking buildings is probably not where you want to be. Think rural. Think remote. You want a place so far out that even Google Maps needs a minute to figure out where you are. And hey, it might mean more fresh air and fewer neighbours when the worlds not ending. Win-win.
The full list of nuclear fallout shelters in the UK is:
- Aberconwy: Emergency Control Centre
- Aberdeen: Tertowie House Grampian Regional Council Emergency Centre
- Alconbury: RAF Alconbury Cold War Bunkers
- Anstruther: Rotor Radar Station and Scotland North Zone HQ
- Aylesbury: Buckinghamshire County Emergency Centre
- Banbury: Cherwell District Council Emergency Centre
- Bawburgh: Rotor SOC and RGHQ
- Bawdsey: Rotor Radar Station
- Beachy Head: Rotor Radar Station
- Beaconsfield: Buckinghamshire County Standby Emergency Centre
- Beaconsfield: Wilton Park Eastern Command War Headquarters and Armed Forces HQ 5
- Belfast: Mount Eden Park Regional War Room
- Belfast: Stormont Sub Control
- Bempton: Rotor Radar Station
- Berkshire: Country Council Emergency Control Bunker
Seek shelter(Image: Getty Images)
- Birkenhead: Wirral Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre
- Birmingham: Anchor Exchange
- Birmingham: Severn Trent Water Emergency Control Centre
- Bodmin: District Council Emergency Centre
- Bootle: Merseyside County Main Emergency Centre 2nd Site
- Borras: North Wales ROC Group HQ
- Boulmer: Rotor Radar Station
- Brede: Southern Water Emergency Control Centre
- Brighouse: West Yorkshire Sub County Control
- Brightlingsea: Urban District Council Control
- Brinklow Heath: Protected BBC Transmitter Building
- Brislington: Regional War Room
- Bristol: Waterworks Emergency Control Centre
- Buchan: R7 Remote Type 7 Radar
- Buchan: Rotor Radar Station
- Burntisland: Railway Control Centre
- Cambridge: Regional War Room RSG and RGHQ
- Cambridgeshire: South Cambridgeshire District Emergency Centre
- Cardiff: Coryton Regional War Room
- Cardiff: Landaff Sub Control
- Carmarthen: County Council Control Bunker
- Carmarthen: South Wales ROC Group HQ
- Castlepoint: Borough Emergency Centre
- Chatham: Southern Water Emergency Control Centre
- Cheam: South West London Group Control
- Chelmsford: Essex County Emergency Centre
- Chichester: West Sussex County Emergency Centre
- Chislehurst: South East London Group Control
- Christchurch: Hampshire County Council and County Borough of Bournemouth Area Control
- Cold Hesledon: Rotor Radar Station
Most top-end bunkers have warning systems, like this one in Hack Green(Image: Getty Images)
- Coswarth: South West Water Emergency Control Centre
- Cottingham: Yorkshire Water Emergency Control Centre
- Craigiebarns: Dundee ROC Group HQ
- Crawley: Borough Emergency Centre
- Crosslaw: Rotor Radar Station
- Dagenham: Borough Control
- Dagenham: WW2 Civil Defence Control Centre
- Dartford: Emergency Centre
- Drakelow: WW2 Shadow Factory RSG and RGHQ
- East Dereham: Breckland District Emergency Centre
- East Ham: Borough Control
- East Kilbride: Western Zone Regional War Room
- Edmonton: Borough Control Site 2
- Ellesmere Port: Emergency Centre
- Eston: Grangetown Area Control
- Fairlight: Rotor Radar Station
- Falkirk: Civil Defence Headquarters
- Faraid Head: Rotor Radar Station
- Finchley: Borough Control
- Finsbury: Borough Control
- Fiskerton: Lincoln ROC Group HQ
- Fylingdales: Long Range Radar Station
- Gillingham: Borough Control
- Godalming: Waverley District Council Emergency Centre
- Goldsborough: Rotor Radar Station
- Greenwich: Borough Control
- Guernsey: Civil Defence Headquarters
Comfy . . . (Image: Getty Images)
- Guildford: Stoughton Barracks SRHQ
- Hack Green: Rotor Radar Station and RGHQ
- Hackney: WW2 ARP Control and Post War Borough Control
- Harwich: RNXS Emergency Port Control
- Hastings: Borough Council Control
- Hemel Hempstead: Dacorum Borough Council Emergency Centre
- Henley: WW2 Shadow Factory and Armed Forces HQ
- Hertford: Sovereign House SRHQ
- Hexham: Cold Store and RGHQ
- High Wycombe: RAF Daws Hill
- Hillingdon: Borough Control
- Holmpton: Rotor Radar Station
- Hope Cove: Rotor Radar Station and RGHQ
- Hopton: Rotor Radar Station
- Horsham: District Council Emergency Centre
- Inverbervie: Rotor Radar Station
- Inverness: Raigmore Highland Emergency Centre
- Ipswich: USW Autovon Telephone Exchange
- Kelvedon Hatch: Rotor SOC and RGHQ
- Kilchiaran: Rotor Radar Station
- Kings Lynn: Joint Norfolk County Standby and West Norfolk District Emergency Centre
- Kingsway: Telephone Exchange
- Kirknewton: Regional War Room and Scottish Eastern Zone HQ
- Lancashire: County Emergency Centre
- Landaff: Landaff Court WW2 Control Cardiff
- Langtoft: Rotor Radar Station
- Lansdown: AAOR and Bristol ROC Group HQ
- Lawford Heath: Coventry ROC Group HQ
- Leicester: Severn Trent Water Emergency Control Centre
- Lincolnshire: County Emergency Centre
- Lisburn: AAOR and ROC Group HQ
- Liverpool (Walker Gallery): Merseyside County Main Emergency Centre 1st Site
- Llwynypia: Rhondda Cynon Taff Joint Emergency Centre
- Luton: County Borough Control
- Lyndon Green: BT Repeater
- Maidstone: Springfields Kent County Emergency Centre
- Maldon: District Council Emergency Centre
- Manchester: Co-op Tunnels
- Manchester: Guardian Telephone Exchange
- Middlesex: County Control
- Mill Hill: North West London Group Control
- Murlough Bay: Rotor Radar Station
- Norwich: Broadland District Council Emergency Centre
- Nottingham: Regional War Room and RSG
- Oxford: County Emergency Centre
- Paddington: Borough Control
- Pear Tree House: London South East Group War Headquarters
- Pitreavie Castle: Combined HQ
- Poltimore Park: Exeter ROC Group HQ
- Portland: Rotor Radar Station
- Portreath: Reporting Post
- Prestatyn: Rotor Radar Station
- Queenborough: Sub Control
- RAF North Weald: SOC and Epping Forest District Council Emergency Centre
- Reading: Regional War Room
- Reigate: Borough Emergency Centre and Surrey County Standby Emergency Centre
- Richmond: Borough Emergency Centre
- Rotherham: County Borough Control
- Rothwell Haigh: Grid Control Centre
- Saffron Walden: Uttlesford District Council Emergency Centre
- Salisbury: Urban District Control
- Sandwich: Rotor Radar Station
- Schoolhill: ROC Sector Control
- Seaton Snook: Rotor Radar Station
- Shalford: Thames Water Control Centre
- Sheerness: RNXS Emergency Port Control
- Shipton: Rotor Radar SOC and RGHQ
- Shirley: Regional War Room
- Shrewsbury: Armed Forces HQ 9
- Skendleby: Rotor Radar Station and RGHQ
- Skirlaugh: Holderness District Council Emergency Centre
- Snaefell: Rotor Radar Station
- Solihull: Borough Emergency Centre
- Sopley: Rotor Radar Station
- Southall: London North West Group War HQ
- Southport: Merseyside County Standby Emergency Centre
- Southport: Sefton Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre
- Southwark: Borough Control
- St Albans: City And District Council Emergency Centre
- St Austell: Restormel Borough Emergency Centre
- St Pancras: Borough Control
- Stafford: Staffordshire County Emergency Centre
- Staxton Wold: Rotor Radar Station
- Stoke Newington: Borough Control
- Stoke Newington: Borough Control and Hackney Borough Control 2nd Site
- Stonehaven: Kincardine and Deeside District Council Emergency Centre
- Stratford: Newham Borough Council Control
- Tayside: Regional Council Emergency Centre
- Thornbury: North Avon District Council Emergency Centre
- Totnes: South West Water Emergency Control Centre
- Tottenham: Borough Control
- Tower Hamlets: Borough Control
- Treleaver: Rotor Radar Station
- Trimingham: Rotor Radar Station
- Truleigh Hill: Rotor Radar Station
- Truro: Cornwall County Emergency Centre
- Tunbridge Wells: Regional War Room
- Twyford: Southern Water Emergency Control Centre
- Upper Heyford: RAF Upper Heyford
- Ventnor: Rotor Radar Station
- Walton on Thames: Sub Control
- Wandsworth: Borough Control
- Wanstead: South East London Group Control
- Wartling: GCI Radar Station
- Wartling: Rotor Radar Station
- Warwick: County Emergency Centre
- Wenallt: AAOR (Anti-Aircraft Operations Room)
- West Myne: Rotor Radar Station
- Wick: Rotor Radar Station
- Witney: West Oxfordshire Emergency Centre
- Yeadon: Leeds ROC Group HQ
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