Tyneham (England)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
טינהאם (אנגליה)
Name (Latin)
Tyneham (England)
Coordinates
W0021000 W0021000 N0503700 N0503700 (geonames )
Associated country
Great Britain
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 152886737
Wikidata: Q983926
Library of congress: nr 95029415
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 50°37ʹ00ʺN 002°10ʹ00ʺW)
  • The village that died for England, 1995:t.p. (Tyneham)
  • Barth. gaz. of places in Brit., 1986(Tyneham, Dorset, vill. betw. Purbeck Hills and coast 5m SW of Wareham; rendered derelict owning to its situation in Army firing ranges)
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Wikipedia description:

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.

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