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Contact: Ruth Underwood, 2 St John's Grove, London, N19 5RW | Tel: 020 7272 8500

email: ruthunderwood@kitty123.fsnet .co.uk

Little Imber on the Downe,
Seven Miles from any Towne

This exhibition opened at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on 3 May 2008 and runs until 31 August.
Opening hours Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 12 to 4pm.
Wiltshire Heritage Museum,
41 Long Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1NS
www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk
Tel: 01380 727369 email: wanhs@wiltshireheritage.org.uk

"Using photographs from our own collection this special display tells the story of Imber village on Salisbury Plain, taken over by the military during World War II...
...Mainly through the use of photographs recently donated to our collection, 'Little Imber on the Downe, Seven Miles from any Towne', aims to tell visitors about this remote community, its people and how they lived. It also looks at how the residents reacted on being told they would have to vacate their properties and what happened to them, and the village, after the war ended..."

Some images from the exhibition have been put on the BBC Wiltshire website. Click here to view them.

Open Days

The roads from Warminster to Gore Cross via Imber and Bratton to Heytesbury via Imber will be open to the public from midday on Friday 1 August 2008 through to 6.00pm on Sunday 17 August. For further details please contact the MoD on 01980 674679 or 01980 674714.

For enquiries about possible opening of St Giles Church (which is still under renovation) during this period, please contact The Churches Conservation Trust on 020 7213 0660 .

For the fourth year running the annual St Giles Day Church Service will again take place at Edington Priory because of repair work still in progress at St Giles. Please telephone Rev Graham Southgate, Vicar of Edington, on 01380 830374 for more details.

By September 2009 the Church Service is due to be reinstated at St Giles Church at Imber , by which time it will be fully restored.