Tyneham & Worbarrow

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Welcome to the new Tyneham OPC website


Tyneham

A small parish in the Isle of Purbeck 6 miles south-west of Corfe Castle and 7 miles from Wareham is Dorset's most famous lost village.

In November of 1943 notice was given to the villagers and those in the surrounding area that they would be required to leave within 28 days as the area was needed for training.

On 17 December 1943 the last villagers left believing that one day they would be able to return.

Sadly this was never to happen, the village is still part of the M.O.D. ranges and access is only allowed at certain times of the year, when they are not firing on the ranges (see ‘Opening Times’ for details).

Only the church and school house remain intact, the school house having been restored; with the children’s names on their pegs and their work at their desks it feels as if only minutes ago they had run outside to play.

Welcome to the website for Tyneham & Worbarrow, hosted by Martin White, as part of the Dorset Online Parish Clerk network.

If you have any information about Tyneham & Worbarrow, or the other hamlets of Baltington, Egliston, Povington and Whiteway which you would like to share, be it stories or old photographs etc., please email us at info@tynehamopc.org.uk

The information on this website is provided for private research only. None of the information may be used for commercial purposes.


Added in May 2012:

Added in April 2012:

Algernon Arthur Garneys BOND

Jane Bond died 8 March 1854

Reverend William BOND died 5 March 1852

Louisa Mary Alberta Symes Mayo (nee Hull) died 18 January 1955

William Henry BOND died 11 January 1935

Job CHURCHILL died 26 February 1931

Gertrude Annie CORFIELD died 7 March 1929

Reverend Edwin George Clifford FREND died 15 January 1937

Charles William HOWARD died 28 November 1928

Robert SCUTT died 24 April 1866

Rt. Revd. Christopher WORDSWORTH died 21 March 1885

Christopher Andrewes WORDSWORTH died 6 December 1910

Kathleen Philippa WORDSWORTH died 16 July 1941

Mary WORDSWORTH died 25 February 1921

Osmund Bartle WORDSWORTH died 2 April 1917

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Tyneham is featured in the December 2011 issue of Dorset Life. The article, on page 26, is entitled ‘Charlie Mills refuses to be caned’.
It tells of several occasions when schoolmistress Mary Rose caned Charlie Mills for insolence, laziness and disobedience. But on 9 July 1888, after displaying extreme disobedience, Charlie refused to be caned.
The Reverend William Brown is summoned.
Click here to see the article.
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