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Tyneham is a small village nestling in the valley below Whiteway Hill in south Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. It lies 6 miles south west of Corfe Castle and 7 miles from Wareham. The village is situated near Worbarrow Bay on the Jurassic Coast. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Tigeham, meaning "goat enclosure". The village, and 7,500 acres of surrounding heathland and chalk downland around the Purbeck Hills, were commandeered by the War Office (now Ministry of Defence) for use as firing ranges for training troops just before Christmas on December 17th 1943. It was once described as "one of the most beautifully situated villages in the country" and comprised an Elizabethan manor house, a handful of greystone cottages, a church and a school hidden among the trees and a distant view of the sea between wide areas of open grassland and the towering Purbeck hills. |
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