Tyneham: A town eradicated of the English territory

The history of the town lost of Tyneham in Dorset, England is probably one of the saddest and unjust among the stories of the cities abandoned English, that certainly, are many.



A furtive look at night, surely will present us to the town as dismal and even espeluznante. Even so encourage you to visit it? If it is thus will interest you to know that the surrounding nature and the ancient houses cause they recall to the environment of the movie “The Blair Witch Proyect“, and is then when really feels him itself as a ghost town. Nevertheless, the reality dictates that in that town the disappearance of the people was not given for some illness or for some massacre, is still more complex than that. Why do we refer? It continues reading if you want to know the curious history…

In its beginnings, Tyneham was a tranquil community near Lulworth in the Island of Purbeck. The year 1943 would be the final year of the disappearance of the inhabitants of the town. The date could not be worse, just before Christmas. The Office of War -current Department of Defense- directed that the territory that occupied the small population, besides some adjacent lands “they would be lent” for the instruction and practice of the English troops as sight to World War Two.


To that moment, the inhabitants kept the hopes to return to its yearned for town and to develop its life normally as they had come it doing through all those years, since the measure had a temporary cut. Nevertheless, this was not thus. In the year 1948, the exercised ordered the expropriation of you said territories and since then the place has been maintained like space for military training. The nature invaded with ferocity the houses and buildings being known housewife and lady before the absence of its original settlers. For the year 1975, a plan of recovery of the town was set in motion, what carried to that itself to become center of visits on the part of curious tourists of the entire world, chiefly of England.


Upon being displaced persons the settlers of Tyneham, they left a notice in the door of the church, without knowing that that message would be the last one in the town. The inscription said thus: “Please, they treat the church and the houses with care. We have renounced our houses where many of us we live during generations to help to win the war to the men free. We will return some day and we will thank them for the good deal and amiability”.