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The "Eyam Hypothesis" is a medical theory named after the village's contribution to containing the spread of the plague through self-isolation. It has been proposed in the recent discussion over whether observed isolationary behaviour in sickness among vertebrates is the result of evolution or of altruism and still awaits validation.
Eyam Museum opened on 23 April 1994 as a small museum on a single level. [3] A model of a Derbyshire lead mine was added in 2002. The museum is staffed by volunteers. It is located in Hawkhill Road.
The parish contains the village of Eyam and the surrounding countryside. The history of the village is notable because when the plague broke out in 1666, the village went into voluntary quarantine to prevent the disease from spreading outside. [ 1 ]
Cucklet Church, formerly known as Cucklet Delph, is a cave west of Jumber Brook in Eyam, Derbyshire. [2] The book Caves of the Peak District describes it as "A series of through arches in a prominent buttress." [1] It lies within the Stoney Middleton Dale Site of Special Scientific Interest. [3]
Eyam was a village in Britain that imposed a cordon sanitaire on itself to stop the spread of the bubonic plague to other communities in 1665. The plague ran its course over 14 months and one account states that it killed at least 260 villagers. [95] The church in Eyam has a record of 273 individuals who were victims of the plague. [96]
The Roses of Eyam is a historical drama by Don Taylor about the Great Plague that swept Britain in 1665/66. It is largely based on the events that happened in the "plague village" of Eyam in Derbyshire, between September 1665 and December 1666. [1]
This helped stop the spread of the plague by sterilising any coins that came in or out of Eyam. " Mompesson's Well ", listed at Grade II by Historic England, [ 12 ] is a substantial well on the edge of the village and another site for the exchange of payment for food and other essentials left by neighbouring parishioners.
In 1665 plague hit England, and a consignment of cloth bound for Eyam brought with it the infectious fleas which spread the disease. Mompesson, in conjunction with another clergyman, the ejected Puritan, Thomas Stanley, took the courageous decision to isolate the village. In all, 260 of the village's inhabitants, including his wife Catherine ...