Tyneham
Sign in to saveTyneham is a ghost village abandoned in 1943 and former civil parish, now in the parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in the Dorset district, in the south of Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. In 2001 the civil parish had a population of 0. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2014 and merged with Steeple to form Steeple with Tyneham.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Tyneham
- UK place.civil_parish
- Steeple with Tyneham
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Tyneham church.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Tyneham St Mary's Church in 2009
- UK place.population
- 0
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001 Census)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SY885805
- UK place.post_town
- WAREHAM
- UK place.postcode_area
- BH
- UK place.postcode_district
- BH20
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South Dorset
- UK place.unitary_england
- Dorset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Dorset
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Tyneham is a ghost village abandoned in 1943 and former civil parish, now in the parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in the Dorset district, in the south of Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. In 2001 the civil parish had a population of 0. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2014 and merged with Steeple to form Steeple with Tyneham.
==Location== thumb|right|Gardener's House The village is situated northeast of Worbarrow Bay on the Jurassic Coast, about south of Wareham and about west of Swanage. The village lies in a secluded east–west valley between two ridges of the Purbeck Hills. To the north is the main ridge with Povington Hill () and its highest point, Ridgeway Hill (). To the south is the ridge above Gad Cliff that runs from the headland of Worbarrow Tout in the west to the knoll of Tyneham Cap () in the east.