St Giles Church - Imber Village - Wiltshire
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Norfolk12
N 51° 14.076 W 002° 03.078
30U E 566232 N 5676341
A solitary gargoyle on this old church at Imber, this is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Waymark Code: WMG179
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/31/2012
Views: 6
This village was taken over by the Ministry of Defence for training purposes the only building left intact is the church .
The Church of St. Giles is the parish church for the ghost town of Imber, a village out of bounds to the public..The Village is only accessable 50 days a year usually BANK HOLIDAYS and over the CHRISTMAS TIME.
Imber an isolated village on Salisbury plain was requisitioned by the War Office a week before Christmas 1943. Villagers were told at the beginning of November that they had to pack up and leave. In just over a month the area was evacuated and the village literally vanished off the map.