LONDON — It's a unique historical English property that could be perfect for a doomsday prepper. In fact, it was built to survive a nuclear blast.

A Cold War era bunker is going up for auction later this month in the Bristol area in western England with a low starting bid of 20,000 pounds ($26,740).

The entrance sits amid what looks like blackberry brambles on a hillside in the village of Hallen overlooking farm fields and the mouth of the River Severn. But don’t expect a view from the underground chamber.

The bunker is one of about 1,500 shelters built across the U.K. for the Royal Observer Corps, a civil defense organization, to safely monitor blast waves and fallout from nuclear attacks that never came.

Most now sit empty, though they occasionally come up for resale since they were

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