Hidden away from public view in the danger area of a closed off army live fire training area on the south coast of England is one of Britain's forgotten abandoned places, and a lasting casualty of the Second World War, the ghost village of Tyneham. Tyneham today has been called "Britain's Pripyat," (referencing the Soviet city that was abandoned after the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986). Also "The Village that died to save Europe".
In November 1943 in preparation for the Allied invasion of Europe (D Day), with no warning , the British Government requisitioned 30 sq miles of the Southern English Coastline to be used as a live fire training area and secret D Day preparation zone for American Forces.

The people of the Parish of Tyneham and surrounding communities, who had lived there for generations, were given just 28 days to vacate their homes before the army sealed off the area.
They were promised that they could return to their homes once the World War 2 was over, but ultimately they were betrayed by the Government, who in the early 1950s decided to keep the land to be used to train tank crews to combat the threat of Soviet invasion during the cold war. The residents of Tyneham would never be permitted to return home!

Over the next 80 years, the village has remained exactly as it was left in 1943, a ghost town where all the people just upped and left in a couple of weeks. It comprises of the lost village, surrounding farms and cottages; and the abandoned mansion of Tyneham House built in the 1500s

The village can be visited by the public a few days a year when the Army Tank Ranges are not live. So in this video I take the opportunity to explore the village of Tyneham and its surrounds, and also to tell the whole story of Tyneham in 1943 in a documentary.

UK Defence InfraStructure Organisation (DIO) Range timetable;
https://www.gov.uk/government/publica...


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CHAPTERS:

00:09 Intro
02:50 The drive to Tyneham
03:17 Tynehams History and the 1943 Backstory
11:57 Entering The MOD Range Danger Area
13:55 Tyneham Churchyard
14:56 The Row and the Post Office
18:05 Tyneham Church
19:35 Tyneham School
21:45 The Rectory
22:46 Laundry Cottages
23:36 Tyneham Farm
25:53 Worbarrow Bay
27:50 Baltington
28:50 Tyneham House
26:35 The Church
30:39 Summary and Outro