Tyneham Village

Tynehams Church of St Marys, it now houses many photographs and information on the lost village.

Tyneham Village

In most of the house a board gives you a insight into the people that lived there.
If you enjoy searching family trees and have access to the Census Returns for England you can look them up yourself.

Tyneham Village

The Rectors House, the car is parked where the orange netting is. The house gave the inhabitants many problems with its leaky roof, apparently the slope of the roof was to shallow and rain continually came into the house.

Tyneham Village

The village has been turned into a sort of museum, but if you want to visit you should check times, when the army is on manoeuvres the acces to the village is closed.

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The Village post of and general stores. The telephone box arrived in 1937 and was quite. The telephone box as since been restored to its former glory. This was the only place in the village were provisions could be bought, Wareham the nearest town was a good day away by horse and cart, and the the village had no pub! Other than the church this was the hub of the village.

Tyneham Village

Recently we went to Tyneham village, nestled in the hills of Purbeck in Dorset this fascinating village was evacuated in WWll for use in the D-Day landings. The many soldiers that took part were billeted here, and practice for the D-Day landings took place in the area. Although the Ministry of Defence promised the inhabitants of Tyneham that their village would be returned to them after the war this never happened, instead the MOD used it for future army manoeuvres. It must of been a disturbing letter to receive when you are out of the country fighting a war only to find that your family has been evicted from their home in the cause of the war effort.
The village is frozen in time, never inhabited since 1943, the story of Tyneham is a fascinating one, before the villagers left a note was pinned to the vilaage church, it read,

'Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly.'

They never returned.

For more info-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyneham