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The village of Dode was virtually wiped out by the Black Death during the 14th century, and its church last used as a place of worship in 1367, then deconsecrated [3] on the orders of Thomas Trilleck, the Bishop of Rochester. [1] [4] It was originally twinned with another Early Norman church in Paddlesworth (now in Snodland). [5]
Eyam (/ ˈ iː m / ⓘ) [2] is an English village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales that lies within the Peak District National Park.There is evidence of early occupation by Ancient Britons on the surrounding moors and lead was mined in the area by the Romans. [3]
In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village (DMV) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. [ citation needed ] If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convention is to regard the site as deserted; if there are more than three houses, it is ...
The Black Death of 1348–49 does not seem to have played a significant part in the desertion of Wharram Percy, although the large fall in population in the country as a whole at that time must have encouraged relocation to larger settlements. In 1402 or 1403, the Percy family exchanged their holdings in the area with the Hylton family.
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic, which reached England in June 1348. It was the first and most severe manifestation of the second pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria. The term Black Death was not used until the late 17th century.
Abandoned village in Russia The remains of a fieldstone church in Dangelsdorf Germany, from the 14th century Moggessa di Qua near Moggio Udinese/Italy Glanzenberg, a 13th-century town in Unterengstringen, Switzerland Villa Epecuén . An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout ...
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.
The Black Death was present in Italy between 1347–1348. [1] Sicily and the Italian Peninsula was the first area in then Catholic Western Europe to be reached by the bubonic plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which reached the region by an Italian ship from the Crimea which landed in Messina in Sicily in October 1347. [1]