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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Danielle Wroe

Inside UK's ghost village left empty for 80 years after all residents told to go

A ghost village in the UK has remained eerily empty for nearly 80 years - since residents were kicked out during World War 2.

Imber in Wiltshire hasn’t been lived in since 1943 and the isolated area now forms part of the British Army’s training grounds on the Salisbury Plain.

The entire civilian population was evicted to provide an exercise area for US troops during World War 2.

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