The English are renowned for not preserving places or equipment of historical significance. Is there one WW2 battleship or cruiser preserved? The TSR2 a plane of great importance destroyed on orders from the Government.What other places have been destroyed?
Thats a bit unfair.
There are numerous museums such as Hendon, Cosford, Duxford, Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester, the Cabbinet War Rooms, the National Army Museums, the Mosquito Museum, the Shuttleworth Collection, the Muckleborough Collection etc.
HMS Belfast is a Cruiser preserved in the Pool of London and there are numerous other smaller private museums.
Nearly every regiment of the British Army have their own museums, all open to the public.
The UK was turned into a huge Airbase, Army camp, and Naval base during WWII. Farm land was taken and villages evacuated to build military instalations. When the war ended, people wanted their land and homes back.
I live in an area surrounded by old 8th Airforce bomber bases. These were all built on farm land. The airfields may have gone but magnificent memorials stand on the sites and in nearby villages.
Glenn Millar was based in my home town, there ar memorials to him there and at the site of the old Twinwoods airfield, where he took off from when he disappeared, there is a fantastic museum:
http://www.twinwoodairfield.co.uk/twinwood-airfield-aviation-museum.html
We have a museum to the 306th Bomb Group USAAF nearby too:
http://www.306bg.co.uk/history.html
Bletchley Park was closed down and Station X's existence hidden for so long because the Soviet forces were using captured Enigma machines and we were reading their messages and as they never knew we had cracked Enigma, we dismantled Station X and shifted it all to a pupose built location that became GCHQ.
It would have been daft to advertise we could read their codes by creating a museum to the work and efforts of Bletchley Park.
The UK had suffered greatly in WWII and wanted to get back to normal as soon as they could. They weren't thinking of preserving things for prosperity, but of rebuilding and the future, but there are a multitude of Museums, national and private collections, so I would say we are renowned for preserving places and equipment of historical significance.
By the way, TSR2 was cancelled by the government on political grounds. Two airframes exist in Duxford and Cosford, and to be honest, they were not that great an aircraft! AND don't forget the only airworthy Vulcan is based in the UK
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/
And finally! There is a team building a full size replica of the Short Stirling as none survived intact after the war, while RAF Cosford is fully refurbishing a Wellington and, the privately owned Lancaster "Just Jane"
http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/ is being restored to flying status so there will be three airworthy Lancasters in the world! AND! there is a number of DH Mosquitos being restored to airworthy status.