Inside the shelter are two rooms: a communal area and a w/c. "An underground shelter was built on the site, possibly in the 1970s, in the event of a nuclear attack. Read more: Hotel on edge of Peak District that made £250k on Airbnb up for sale According to the Whitwell Local History Group, it was used as an observation point by the Royal Observer Corps from 1939 onwards and was manned every day during World War Two for this purpose.
The authority's website states: "This site has been utilised over the past century and a half for its good vantage point. But the second, valued at £70,000 portion comprises a 4.61 acre section that includes the shelter, possibly built in the 1960s in the southeast.ĭerbyshire County Council has registered the shelter - which has been sealed - as a monument. The first, valued at £280,000, approximately 21.55 acres is where crops have predominantly been grown during recent years. The land, known as Observer Post Field, in Whitwell, Bolsover, is split into two lots. The seemingly ordinary field, used by its current owner to grow crops, boasts an impressive piece of local history as included in its £350,000 total price tag is a shrub-covered Cold War bunker. A piece of farmland with a hidden history on the edge of a Derbyshire village has been put up for sale.
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