As a result the town was almost completely abandoned for a while.

But in any case, by the end of the year the town was virtually abandoned.

There was no one on the streets to see her; the town might have been abandoned.

After about another 20 or 30 years the town was abandoned.

By 1886, the post office closed and the town has been abandoned since.

The town was later abandoned by the King and took no further part in the war.

In 1951 the police post closed and the town was abandoned.

The town was entirely abandoned by the end of the 1930s.

The population had declined to just two families in 1928 and the town was abandoned soon after.

They fear that if their town is abandoned, residents will never be able to return.