Tyneham & Worbarrow

… where time stopped in 1943

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Added in May 2014:

• Wartime: Wartime duty as told by Revd. F.S. Horan

Added in April 2014:

• Publications: NEW BOOK The Tyneham Story
• Your Messages: Message from Sheila Davidson researching Miller & Furmage families

Added in February 2014:

• In the News: 1947 - Aged Evacuee Mrs. C. Miller dies

Added in December 2013:

• Buildings & Places: School - pictures showing progress of vital repairs
• Opening Times 2014

• Probate records for:

William Ralph Garneys BOND died 10 February 1952

William Joseph COOPER died 31 March 1951

• Your Messages: Message from Roy Bowden researching Miller & Balson families

Added in September 2013:

• Buildings & Places: Gwyle Cottages - further information added
• In the News: 2013 - Our ghost story
• Probate records for:

Ethel Inez Jane CHAPPLE died 11 July 1960

George Stewart CHAPPLE died 13 January 1942

Frank FOOKS died 9 February 1947

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Recent updates to website

   As time

  passed by …

                                                         … this is

Tyneham’s story

Click here to read Tyneham’s story by Nick Churchill

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Plan to visit Tyneham?

Then read our FREE Visitor Guide and check the Opening Times

Tyneham is Dorset's famous ‘lost’ village. In November 1943 notice was given to the villagers that they would be required to leave within 28 days as the area was needed for forces’ training.

On 17 December 1943 the last villagers left believing that one day they would be able to return. Sadly this was never to happen.

Today, the village is still part of the Army Ranges but access is allowed most weekends and all public holidays (see ‘Opening Times’).

The intervening years have taken their toll. Only the church and school house remain intact. With names on the pegs and schoolwork on the desks, it feels as if only minutes ago the children had run outside to play….

As it was, Post Office Row in Tyneham

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Post Office Row in Tyneham as it is today

Welcome to the Tyneham & Worbarrow One-Place Study website, hosted by Martin White, as part of the Dorset Online Parish Clerk network.

Whether you are looking to visit Tyneham & Worbarrow for the day, or are researching your family history, you will find a wealth of information on this site including photographs old & new, historic postcard views, baptism, marriage and burial records, census entries, wills and probate records and much much more besides.

The information on this website is provided for personal use and private research only. None of the information may be used for commercial purposes.

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