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Danielle Wroe & Peter Diamond

Inside UK’s ghost village left empty for 80 years after evacuation of residents

A UK ghost village which has remained eerily desolate for nearly 80 years because residents who lived there were kicked out during World War 2.

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

The whole civilian population of Imber was evicted to provide an training area for US troops during World War 2, according to Mirror Online.

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