California on Americas' west coast is home to Scientology's head office compound and many other properties

In the 1960's Hubbard based Scientology at East Grinstead, a small town near London. As the rule of law threatened, he took to ruling his cult empire from a fleet of old boats. Saint Hill Manor remains a Scientology property, but the effects on recruitment by Project Chanology have left Scientology short of staff,  these days their phones are manned by whoever they can import from east europe.