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Lockdown - Imber Court manor house

            Imber is an uninhabited village in a remote part of the British Army’s main trining ground – Salisbury Plain.

Historically, the village was always one of the most isolated settlements in the county – at its peak, there were 450 inhabitants in the mid 19th century – but by 1940, this had declined to circa 150 when the Ministry of Defence  purchased the land on which it stood.

In 1943, the MoD informed the villagers they would all need to leave within 50 days as the village was to be used for training troops in street fighting as part of the preparation for D-Day.

The promise to allow them to return after the war was never met, and today, the village remains closed to the public except for just a few days each year and continues to be used for urban warfare training.

A small number of the original budlings remain – the pub, manor house and a handful of farm buildings – the remainder were demolished by the army, replacing them instead with purpose-built constructions more suitable for military training.

Taken on: January 3, 2022

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