Exploring deserted Tyneham at dusk when all the visitors have left and with the sun dipping over Worbarrow Bay, is when the musical's anthem seems most poignant
- 'Can you hear the whispers in the walls?'.
In 1943 the population of simple farmers and fishermen were given 30 days to leave their homes to allow for the Ministry of Defence’s preparations for D-Day, little knowing that they would never return.
By Christmas 1943 all 225 inhabitants had abandoned the village and Tyneham has remained a ghost town ever since, with only the shells of some of its former buildings left to tell the tale.
Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly. / the last person leaving a notice on the church door in 1943!/
1580s Tyneham House built
1932 - Tyneham village school closes due to lack of numbers
1943 - Tyneham, East Holme, East Lulworth, East Stoke and Steeple fall under War Office requisition order
1968 Tyneham Action Group campaign for village to be given to National Trust
1974 - MoD rejects a hand back of the land but allows greater access to walking routes and makes remaining buildings safe
1979 - First church service held at Tyneham for 36 years
Tyneham is a ghost village but In 2008, Tyneham Farm was reopened to the public and conservation work there is ongoing.
A walk out of the village leads to the ruins of Tyneham Farm and the old farmlands where sheep still graze.
Returning home after two years as a prisoner of war in Germany, Lieutenant Mark Bond alighted at his usual railway station in the early hours to find it closed and the telephone disconnected.
He slept on a waiting room table until his father arrived to collect him soon after daylight.
As they drove, Bond turned to his father and said: “Hey, you’re going the wrong way.” “No,” his father replied, “we live in a different house now.”
While he was away, the house and land (3,003 acre site) owned by the Bond family for 300 years, a beautiful area forming part of the tranquil Tyneham valley in Dorset, had been requisitioned for a tank firing range.
Major-General Mark Bond Of Tyneham and Moigne Combe (1922-2017)
Moigne Combe
Moigne Combe.
Ralph & Evelyn Bond moved to Moigne Combe.
Following his retirement from the Army in 1972, their son, Major-General Mark Bond took over the running of the Estate and pursued an active public life.
He lived there happily, surrounded by the Moigne Combe Woods and the tranquillity he loved, until his death in 2017.
A country estate Moigne Combe owned by the same Bond family who inspired Ian Fleming's 007 character has gone on the market for £3.5m.
John Bond was an Elizabethan spy who adopted the Latin phrase 'non sufficit orbis' (the world is not enough) as his family's motto.
John Bond spied for Queen Elizabeth I in the late 1500s, assisting Sir Francis Drake on many escapades, including the 1586 raid on the Azores, which Spain had just bought from Portugal.
During the raid on the Spanish governor's palace, Drake saw a stone globe with the Latin phrase non sufficit orbis, which was King Philip II of Spain's motto.
It is thought Fleming learned of his exciting tales of 16th century espionage while the author went to prep school in Dorset in 1914.
Fleming is known to have found the name James Bond on a book of birds when he was in Jamaica, but he knew the Dorset Bonds from his days at Durnford School, an austere prep school in Langton Matravers.
He was sent there when he was aged seven.
But the headmaster's wife read the boys adventure stories in the evenings which he said was the only bit he liked about the school and it put the seed in his head for his later James Bond books.
He introduced the spy's 'the world is not enough' motto in the book On Her Majesty's Secret Service and it became the title of the 21st Bond film in 1999.
The motto can still be seen on another of the Bond family's homes, Creech Grange at East Holme - Creech Grange was sold to Nathaniel Bond in 1691.
Fleming also used another old Dorset family name, Drax, for his villain Sir Hugo Drax, who he named after his acquaintance Admiral Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
Worbarrow Bay
This beautiful bay is just a 20 minute walk from the village of Tyneham.
It is a hidden gem on the Jurrasic coast of Dorset.
The waters are brilliant blue and the beach, although pebbles is clean and tidy.
The views along the coast are splendid.
It is well worth the walk of about one mile from the village of Tyneham which is also worth visiting.
Please read my review about Tyneham as you have the long windy small road trip to Tyneham to park before you walk to the beach. The car park at Tyneham is £2.00 and you put the money in an honesty box.
There is a toilet at Tyneham but you probably won't find any toilet paper so take your own and the running water cannot be drunk.
Tyneham and the grass car park is unmanned and Tyneham is volunteer run so there are no facilities and no bins or dog poo bins you must take your own rubbish including doo poo with you off site, there is evidence of disrespectful rubbish dumpers around the site and quite literally hundreds of dog poo bags in Tyneham and along the very pretty walk to the beach, how do people think these poo bags and rubbish are going to get removed!
Rant over.
The walk from Tyneham car park to the beach is about a mile along a gravel track and is beautiful and safe to walk along, with blueberries and blackberries all along the path you can munch and walk.
The beach is large pebble and is very hard to walk on so take good footwear and something to sit on but the water is perfectly clear and the bay is akin to the bays you find in the Mediterranian.
There are no facilities so take water and food with you and take your rubbish home as there are no bins.
The beach is accessible on weekends and bank holidays and only until 8pm. It is military land and can be closed without notice.
It was amazing how few people were visiting this true hidden gem when it is similar to Durdle Door but without the miles of vehicle, tailbacks to get there!
- Tyneham & Worbarrow - Parishioners in 1943
- 'Can you hear the whispers in the walls?'.
In 1943 the population of simple farmers and fishermen were given 30 days to leave their homes to allow for the Ministry of Defence’s preparations for D-Day, little knowing that they would never return.By Christmas 1943 all 225 inhabitants had abandoned the village and Tyneham has remained a ghost town ever since, with only the shells of some of its former buildings left to tell the tale.Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly. / the last person leaving a notice on the church door in 1943!/1580s Tyneham House built1932 - Tyneham village school closes due to lack of numbers
1943 - Tyneham, East Holme, East Lulworth, East Stoke and Steeple fall under War Office requisition order
1968 Tyneham Action Group campaign for village to be given to National Trust
1974 - MoD rejects a hand back of the land but allows greater access to walking routes and makes remaining buildings safe
1979 - First church service held at Tyneham for 36 years
Tyneham is a ghost village but In 2008, Tyneham Farm was reopened to the public and conservation work there is ongoing.
A walk out of the village leads to the ruins of Tyneham Farm and the old farmlands where sheep still graze.Returning home after two years as a prisoner of war in Germany, Lieutenant Mark Bond alighted at his usual railway station in the early hours to find it closed and the telephone disconnected.
He slept on a waiting room table until his father arrived to collect him soon after daylight.
As they drove, Bond turned to his father and said: “Hey, you’re going the wrong way.” “No,” his father replied, “we live in a different house now.”
While he was away, the house and land (3,003 acre site) owned by the Bond family for 300 years, a beautiful area forming part of the tranquil Tyneham valley in Dorset, had been requisitioned for a tank firing range.
Major-General Mark Bond Of Tyneham and Moigne Combe (1922-2017)
Moigne CombeMoigne Combe.Ralph & Evelyn Bond moved to Moigne Combe.
Following his retirement from the Army in 1972, their son, Major-General Mark Bond took over the running of the Estate and pursued an active public life.
He lived there happily, surrounded by the Moigne Combe Woods and the tranquillity he loved, until his death in 2017.
A country estate Moigne Combe owned by the same Bond family who inspired Ian Fleming's 007 character has gone on the market for £3.5m.
John Bond was an Elizabethan spy who adopted the Latin phrase 'non sufficit orbis' (the world is not enough) as his family's motto.
John Bond spied for Queen Elizabeth I in the late 1500s, assisting Sir Francis Drake on many escapades, including the 1586 raid on the Azores, which Spain had just bought from Portugal.
During the raid on the Spanish governor's palace, Drake saw a stone globe with the Latin phrase non sufficit orbis, which was King Philip II of Spain's motto.
It is thought Fleming learned of his exciting tales of 16th century espionage while the author went to prep school in Dorset in 1914.
Fleming is known to have found the name James Bond on a book of birds when he was in Jamaica, but he knew the Dorset Bonds from his days at Durnford School, an austere prep school in Langton Matravers.
He was sent there when he was aged seven.
But the headmaster's wife read the boys adventure stories in the evenings which he said was the only bit he liked about the school and it put the seed in his head for his later James Bond books.
He introduced the spy's 'the world is not enough' motto in the book On Her Majesty's Secret Service and it became the title of the 21st Bond film in 1999.
The motto can still be seen on another of the Bond family's homes, Creech Grange at East Holme - Creech Grange was sold to Nathaniel Bond in 1691.
Fleming also used another old Dorset family name, Drax, for his villain Sir Hugo Drax, who he named after his acquaintance Admiral Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
Worbarrow Bay
This beautiful bay is just a 20 minute walk from the village of Tyneham.
It is a hidden gem on the Jurrasic coast of Dorset.
The waters are brilliant blue and the beach, although pebbles is clean and tidy.
The views along the coast are splendid.
It is well worth the walk of about one mile from the village of Tyneham which is also worth visiting.
Please read my review about Tyneham as you have the long windy small road trip to Tyneham to park before you walk to the beach. The car park at Tyneham is £2.00 and you put the money in an honesty box.
There is a toilet at Tyneham but you probably won't find any toilet paper so take your own and the running water cannot be drunk.
Tyneham and the grass car park is unmanned and Tyneham is volunteer run so there are no facilities and no bins or dog poo bins you must take your own rubbish including doo poo with you off site, there is evidence of disrespectful rubbish dumpers around the site and quite literally hundreds of dog poo bags in Tyneham and along the very pretty walk to the beach, how do people think these poo bags and rubbish are going to get removed!
Rant over.
The walk from Tyneham car park to the beach is about a mile along a gravel track and is beautiful and safe to walk along, with blueberries and blackberries all along the path you can munch and walk.
The beach is large pebble and is very hard to walk on so take good footwear and something to sit on but the water is perfectly clear and the bay is akin to the bays you find in the Mediterranian.
There are no facilities so take water and food with you and take your rubbish home as there are no bins.
The beach is accessible on weekends and bank holidays and only until 8pm. It is military land and can be closed without notice.
It was amazing how few people were visiting this true hidden gem when it is similar to Durdle Door but without the miles of vehicle, tailbacks to get there!
- Tyneham & Worbarrow - Parishioners in 1943
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