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===Intelligence connection in the Second World War=== During the [[Second World War]], the house served as Training Depot and Headquarters of the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]],<ref>{{cite web|title=British Military History|url=http://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/documents.php?aid=154&nid=22&start=10|website=www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk|access-date=18 June 2017|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055652/http://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/documents.php?aid=154&nid=22&start=10|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=BBC β WW2 People's War β My War in Two Armies: Part 9 of 10 β Call-up to the British Army|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/65/a7855365.shtml|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=18 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Bijl|first1=Nick Van Der|title=Sharing the Secret: The History of the Intelligence Corps 1940β2010|date=2013|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=9781473833180|pages=132β133|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rcY7BAAAQBAJ&q=intelligence+corps+Wentworth+Woodhouse+in+1943&pg=PA132|access-date=18 June 2017}}</ref> although by 1945 conditions for trainee intelligence soldiers had deteriorated so far that questions were asked in the [[House of Commons (United Kingdom)|House of Commons]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Intelligence Corps Depot, Rotherham |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1945/dec/18/intelligence-corps-depot-rotherham|website=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|date=18 December 1945|access-date=18 June 2017}}</ref> Some of the training involved motorcycle dispatch rider skills, as Intelligence Corps personnel often used motorcycles. The grounds of the house and surrounding road network were used as motorcycle training areas.<ref>{{cite web|title=DEAR SERGEANT OR THE STORY OF ROUGH RIDING MOTORCYCLING COURSE {{!}} Yorkshire Film Archive|url=http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/dear-sergeant-or-story-rough-riding-motorcycling-course|website=www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com|access-date=19 June 2017}}</ref>
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