A peaceful view of St Giles’ Church Imber, nestling in it’s little valley deep in the heart of Salisbury Plain, at this distance looking for all the world like an idyllic rural escape. It’s only when you get closer that you see the barbed wire surrounding the church and realise that the village buildings are just shells, and this is the Ghost Village of Salisbury Plain, where the villagers were asked to relocate at the height of World War II to provide a training area for the US troops preparing for D-Day, and told that they could move back six months later. That was 1943, sixty-seven years later the dwindling number of villagers are still waiting…
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