faustus | Ponders

I wonder if the secret research centre - usually in a coastal village (or Collindale) - is a British sf thing? They're experimenting with time travel or teleportation in a private estate rather than a university lab or a military lab although big business is not necessarily excluded. Think "Piper at the Gates of Dawn", A Dream of Wessex, Chronicules, The Electric Crocodile, Charisma, bits of Jerry Cornelius. Various Doctor Who serials.It's not as ostentatious as the base in a hollowed out volcano. There must be US examples, but I'm blanking.

I sort of have an idea what it represents, but the coastal bit doesn't quite fit.