List of ghost towns

Oradour-sur-Glane was destroyed by a Waffen-SS battalion during the Second World War and its population massacred. The village was subsequently rebuilt nearby, but the ruins of the old village have been preserved.

[edit] Guyana

Jonestown, created by cult leader Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978, he conducted a mass suicide with his cult, resulting in 913 of the 1,110 inhabitants dead.

[edit] Hungary

Derenk, in north-east Hungary, was depopulated between 1938-1943, so that the surrounding area can be used as hunting grounds for Admiral Horthy, regent of Hungary.

[edit] India

[edit] Iraq

Babylon

[edit] Iran

[edit] Ireland

Slievemore(Sliabh Mór) ^[1]

[edit] Italy

Bussana Vecchia, Liguria
Melito Vecchio (Old Melito), Avellino, Campania
Poggireale, Sicily
Tocco Caudio, Benevento, Campania

[edit] México

Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosí
San Antonio de la Iguana, Nuevo León, Lat 26° 53' 60N, Long 100° 13' 0W

[edit] Montserrat

Plymouth
St. Patrick's

[edit] Namibia

Kolmanskop and Elizabeth Bay old Diamond mining town

[edit] The Netherlands

Schokland

[edit] Norway

Pyramiden, a Russian settlement on Svalbard

[edit] Pakistan

Amri (Fortified town between 3600 to 3300 BC)
Chanhudaro (Settlement between 4000-1700 BC)
Ganeriwala (Urban center around 3000 BC)
Harappa (Fortified city between 3300-1600 BC)
Kot Diji (Ancient site about 3000 BC)
Mehrgarh (Ancient settelment around 7000 BC)
Mohenjo Daro (Ancient city about 2600-1700 BC)
Sokhta Koh (Harappan settlement around 2600-1900 BC)
Takht Bhai (Remains of a famous Buddhist monastery from the 1st century CE)

[edit] Poland

Kłomino

[edit] Russia

Atil
Ksnyatin
Mangazeya
Mologa
Sarai Berke - said to be 10 times larger than London in the 14th century
Sarkel
Sviyazhsk
Tmutarakan

[edit] Saudi Arabia

Albaten
Najd
Shaqra
Tharmida

[edit] Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands

Deception Island, a Chilean-Norwegian whaling settlement.
Grytviken, a Norwegian whaling settlement on the United Kingdom territory of South Georgia

[edit] Spain

Belchite, Zaragoza, Aragón
Ochate, Condado de Treviño, Burgos, Castilla y León
La Cornudilla, Valencia

[edit] Turkey

Troy

[edit] Turkmenistan

[edit] Ukraine

[edit] United Kingdom

Ashopton, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
Derwent, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
Bothwellhaugh, North Lanarkshire (Under Strathclyde Loch)
Buckenham Tofts, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Dunwich, Suffolk (under the sea)
Hallsands, Devon (destroyed by a storm in 1917)
Imber, Wiltshire (taken over by Army in 1943)
Knaptoft, Leicestershire (deserted in Seventeenth Century)
Lynford, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Martinsthorpe, Rutland
Nether Hambleton, Rutland (under reservoir)
Over the Border, Middlesbrough, (largely abandoned but plans to regerate the area [1])
Saint Kilda, an island off Scotland (evacuated in 1930)
Shipden, Norfolk (under the sea)
Stanford, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Sturston, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Tottington, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Tyneham, Dorset (taken over by Army in 1943)
West Tofts, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)

[edit] United States

Main article: List of ghost towns in the United States

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Ghosttowns.com
GhostTownsCanada.ca Lots of pictures of Canadian ghost towns

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