Ghost town: Tiny English village abandoned during WWI

Visitors outside a row of ruined cottages. The residents of the tiny village were evacuated in late 1943 to provide extra land for military training. Photos: AP/Jerry Harmer

Explore England’s southern coast carefully enough and you can still find relics of the dark years when the country awaited Nazi invasion – abandoned radar stations, tank-traps lost in farmers’ fields and half-hidden concrete bunkers overlooking wide, shingle beaches.

Then there’s Tyneham.