2018
SK2176 : Plague Cottages, Eyam
taken 5 years ago, near to Eyam, Derbyshire, England
Plague Cottages, Eyam
Eyam
Eyam is a village in the Peak District National Park. The village is noted for an outbreak of bubonic plague which occurred there in 1665, in which the villagers chose to isolate themselves rather than let the infection spread. The present village was founded and named by Anglo-Saxons, although lead had been mined in the area by the Romans. Formerly industrial, its economy now relies on the tourist trade and it is promoted as 'the plague village'.
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