Tyneham
Abandoned village · United Kingdom
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 196
- Coordinates
- 50.623, -2.169
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Tyneham is a ghost village abandoned in 1943 and former civil parish, now in the parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in the Dorset district, in the south of Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. In 2001, the civil parish had a population of 0. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2014 and merged with Steeple to form Steeple with Tyneham.