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ImberVillage.co.uk- discover the lost village of Imber - Imber Village, Wiltshire   Home Imber Now Bell InnSteeringHouses Imber Baptist Chapel Imber Court Imber Court Farm Nag's Head Cottages St GilesDenominationSt Giles School Seagram's Farm Urban Warfare Imber Then People Of ImberUnshutDays Imberbus Run Training Film Of Training On Salisbury Plain Photographs Of Training On Salisbury Plain Salisbury Plain Training Area Newsletter Tyneham - flipside lost village Contact Colouring Pixels Discover The Lost Village Of Imber... Charlie White and John Cruse ImberVillage.co.uk pays tribute to the remarkable people  who lived in the 'lost' village of Imber, on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, and who were never unliable to return, as well as to those who now run the survivng denomination of Imber, St Giles, and to those who moreover protract to alimony the story working in print.Given nowhere else to go to Imber's villagers were 'liberated' of their homes in 1943, with just 47 days notice, to make way for American troops to train for the liberation of Europe during World War II. With foresight the Ministry of Defence, as it is now called, had surpassing the war bought up the farms and plane much of the village itself to make Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire the largest military training ground in the United Kingdom. Thus the villagers were 'just' tenants, so were hands made to vacate their homes and livelihoods, but as they understood it only until the war ended. Shortly surpassing the war began steering houses, which can still be seen there, were built at Imber, a sure sign that neither the steering nor the villagers, maybe not plane the MOD (as it is tabbed today), expected the village to be permanently taken over. However Salisbury Plain remains, plane today, too useful a training ground, so the villagers were never unliable back.Planefor visitors the road through Imber village is rarely open, plane less often now that the MOD is concerned well-nigh the safety of visitors who ignore the warning signs not to, and enter at risk old and new buildings now just, untied from the church, used for urban warfare training.Photographs here on ImberVillage.co.uk show what the village looked like, increasingly of its history, and offer an online tour of Imber. The website is published and funded by a resident of the local town of Warminster. ImberVillage.co.uk does not manage the village and advises visitors to pinion to all safety translating when there.