12 UK Towns So DISTURBING Locals Won't Talk About Them

Some of Britain's most disturbing places aren't the ones with ghost tours and ticket prices. They're the ones where the car park used to be a school, where the lake used to be a village, and where the only memorial is a stone nobody outside the county has been asked to read. Twelve of them, counted down ending with a court verdict so cold that newspapers reduced 440 dead men and boys to a single headline about pence. In this video, we explore: → Dunwich, once one of England's largest ports with eight churches and two seats in Parliament — now the outline of a drowned city under thirty feet of North Sea, where graveyard bones still fall from the eroding cliff → Lynmouth, where 229mm of rain fell in 24 hours and 34 people died in a single night in 1952 — and a declassified RAF cloud-seeding programme that has kept a conspiracy theory alive ever since → Mardale Green, blown up by the Royal Engineers as demolition practice; in drought summers its dry stone walls and old bridge rise back out of Haweswater → Derwent's church spire, left standing above Ladybower as a memorial — people swam out and climbed it for years before it was dynamited in 1947 → Imber and Tyneham, two villages requisitioned for D-Day training in 1943 and promised they could come home. Neither was ever allowed back → A note pinned to the Tyneham church door in December 1943 asking visitors to treat the village kindly, because the residents would return one day. They never did → Capel Celyn, a Welsh-speaking village drowned for Liverpool's water supply despite 35 of 36 Welsh MPs opposing it — the betrayal that helped forge modern Welsh nationalism → Eyemouth's Black Friday, 1881: 189 fishermen drowned on the rocks two hundred metres from shore, in full view of families on the harbour wall, with children sent home from school to watch → New Hartley, 1862: 204 men and boys trapped by a single snapped engine beam, dying slowly over six days — the disaster that forced every British mine to have two means of escape → Aberfan, 1966: a colliery waste tip that slid down a hillside and buried a junior school, killing 116 children, after years of ignored warnings And at number one: a 1913 colliery explosion that killed 440 men and boys — the worst mining disaster in British history. When the fines were issued, a newspaper divided the total by the dead and printed what the court had decided each life was worth. Subscribe for the British history they didn't teach in school.