{"id":340652,"date":"2025-12-29T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340652\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:24:07","slug":"abandoned-imber-village-evacuated-in-wwii-open-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340652\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Imber village evacuated in WWII open to public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Custodian Neil Skelton said the church was one of the village&#8217;s only original structures that remain, alongside the old pub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are very few of the original houses left because when they evacuated in 1943 they were mostly cob and thatch,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Of course once the thatch went, the water got in and the cob fell to the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added most of the larger stone buildings were badly damaged during training and they were subsequently demolished. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most other houses are either hollowed-out shells or modern, windowless buildings built to simulate urban environments for military training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Custodian Neil Skelton said the church was one of the village&#8217;s only original structures that remain, alongside the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-340652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}