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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 ]
Eyam Museum or as it is locally known Eyam Plague museum is a local museum in the village of Eyam, located in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England. [1] [2]
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]
Wet Withens (known as Eyam Moor 1) is a Bronze Age stone circle at the centre of Eyam Moor with an earthen bank over 30m wide. The prehistoric henge of 10 upright stones is a protected Scheduled Monument. [4] The other embanked stone circle (Eyam Moor 2) on the eastern edge of the moor is also Bronze Age and is about 13m across. [5]
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.
Eyam Moor from Wet Withens Stone Circle. Wet Withens is a Bronze Age henge on Eyam Moor in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. The prehistoric circle of 10 upright stones is a protected Scheduled Monument. [1] It is sometimes known as Wet Withers (Old English for 'the wet land where willows grew'). [2]
Eyam village is known for a self-imposed quarantine during the Black Death. [24] Edale is the southern end of the Pennine Way, a 268-mile national trail which traverses most of the Pennines and ends at Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish border. [25] The park also contains the highest village in the United Kingdom, Flash, at 1,519 feet (463 m). [26]
Eyam village as it looked when Cunningham was curate, 1775-90. Accounts of Peter Cunningham's life have mostly been gleaned from the writings and correspondence of the Seward family, covering his period as curate at Eyam in 1775-90, and principally from four letters of his that have been preserved from that period.