Bentley Priory was famously the HQ of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Note the Spirfire, Hurricane and Lightning parked in the garden!

See: http://www.raf.mod.uk/stations/bentley.html

Sadly, the Hurricane and Spitfire are big (glass-reinforced) plastic models on stands.
The English Electric Lightning is real.

Not so sad,ly - happy story in fact if I am right.

I went to an RAF wedding reception there as a kid about 35 years ago - and had my pic taken in front of them I was a plane geek at an early age and I'm pretty certain they were real then (I could be wrong). I believe they were swapped out and the real ones were restored to flying condition.. and appearing in the film Battle of Britain.

There are only about 4 hurricanes still flying so if it is now one of them, it and its sister Spit are much happier back in teh sky where they should be

They were real back then. The Hurricane was removed to Manston in 1985 and is now a static exhibit. The Sptifre has returned to the air: "Both aircraft (Mk XVIs TE476 and SL674) then took their turn at gate-guardian duties at Northolt and Bentley Priory before being sold, restored to flying condition and exported to the USA" says the BBMF website, but elsewhere (Flypast mag.) it says the BP guard was TB252. There was a deal done which saw real aircraft replaced by GRP replicas in 1988-89.

I haven't been to BP for about 10 years; I saw the brief-lived experiment with clear discs instead of propellors on the plastic models.

Now that RAF Bentley Priory is to close (no sense of history, some people) I wonder where these exhibits (particularly the Lightning) will end up.