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Eyam Museum website 53°17′14″N 1°40′40″W / 53.2871°N 1.6777°W / 53.2871; - This article relating to a museum in the United Kingdom is a stub .
Eyam Museum was opened in 1994 and, besides its focus on the plague, includes exhibits on the village's local history in general. Among the art exhibits there are painted copies from different eras of a print (taken from a drawing by Francis Chantrey ) in Ebenezer Rhodes ' Peak Scenery (1818).
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] Some of the listed buildings are associated with this event, including cottages occupied by the victims of the disease, and their gravestones.
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 ...
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]
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The cemetery, on the outskirts of Eyam, contains the graves of the Hancock family who died during the outbreak of the plague that spread from London to the village in 1666. [3] Elizabeth Hancock buried her husband and six children, carrying the remains up the hill to the burial site. [ 4 ]
The United Kingdom’s new monarch, King Charles III, brings to mind the last time our city went king crazy, Chicago. The Field Museum was one of six institutions in the United States chosen to ...