The Ghost Town of Imber Hidden deep on Salisbury Plain lies a village that was never meant to disappear. Imber was once a living, working English village, with a church, a school, farms, families, and generations rooted in the land. In 1943, at the height of the Second World War, residents were given just weeks to leave their homes. The British Army told them the evacuation was temporary and promised they would be allowed to return once the war was over. They never did. After the war ended, Imbe