A beautiful Sussex village became a ghost town that remains abandoned to this day as Britain prepared for an invasion by Nazi Germany.

Tide Mills, in East Sussex, was founded in 1761 when corn merchants gained permission to build the area’s iconic dam and mill.

Over the next 150-plus years, the tide mills became a thriving economic center with a growing community of workers and their families, and even had their own railway station.

But over the years the area lost its luster and by 1930 the village’s future seemed doomed when Parliament passed a Housing Act allowing local authorities to condemn dwellings as uninhabitable, in accordance with the Sussex live.

In the middle of the decade, part of the village was declared a clearance zone, with local authorities apparently concerned about alleged sanitary defects in several homes.

Six houses shared a single standpipe for their water, with the general waste from the houses being removed and dumped into the sea.

By 1940, the last inhabitants had left, the site being transformed into a defense line as Britain prepared for the possibility of invasion by Adolf Hitler’s forces during World War II.

The remaining buildings were used by the village troops for training during which they were damaged beyond repair.

Others south of Mill Creek were demolished to provide a clear field of fire.

The buildings that remained after the end of the war were then demolished in 1946/47, leaving only a few walls standing, in accordance with the Tide mills project.

But even though nothing remains of the village’s bustling community, you can still visit the eerie foundations that remain, as well as the last standing walls of the school, hospital and beachside houses.

Visitors can then continue through the reserve and the seaside towns of Seaford or Newhaven.

Its pebble beach also exists to this day, but given the complete lack of development around it, there is not much entertainment.