Tyneham

Stolen away from the people who lived there as part of the war effort, with the promise of safe return; the ruins of Tyneham remind us that our government doesn't alway hold to its word.  Derelict for more than 60 years, these hollowed halls once echoed to the sounds of county life, mostly unchanged for hundreds of years. Now only accessible at weekends and a couple of other times through the year, for the most part they're off limits as part of Lulworth Ranges. Though, looking down on the village from Flowers barrow, I wondered what the land, untouched really for 60 years, would have looked like if the military had not requisitioned it. With access to the bay, where a small fishing community was already established, and its idyllic location and aspect, could the valley have become over developed into something ugly.