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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 (/ 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 ]
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 Hall is a country house within the civil parish of Eyam, Derbyshire, located to the west of St Lawrence's Church, Eyam. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building. [1] Eyam Hall was leased to the National Trust from 2013 until 2018. [2]
Jumber Brook is a stream in Eyam in the Derbyshire Peak District. [1] The stream originates to the north of the village at Highcliffe. [2] The brook flows south through the middle of the village before meeting the Dale Brook in Middleton Dale near Stoney Middleton. [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]
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Stanley was born c. 1610 in Duckmanton.By 1633 he was rector at Dore, before moving onto Ashford in the Water in 1640. [4] By 1644 he was rector at St Lawrence's Church in Eyam, replacing Shorland Adams, a post he held until 1660 when he resigned and left the village, because he refused to comply with the 1662 Act of Uniformity, which made use of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer compulsory. [5]