Eyam

/ iːm /

noun

1. a village in N central England, in Derbyshire. When plague reached the village in 1665 the inhabitants, led by the Rev. Mompesson, isolated themselves to prevent it spreading further: as a result most of them died, including Mompesson's family

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Eyam was a village of some three hundred and fifty inhabitants, standing among meadows around which the hills towered.

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Seventy-six households in Eyam were infected, and out of these two hundred and fifty-nine persons were buried of the plague.

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Stanley, his Dissenting colleague at Eyam, died there a few years after the plague.

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Eyam was one of those basins which, on a large scale or on a small, have often been observed to keep infection in their soil.

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The very beautiful cross at Eyam, in Derbyshire, differs both in style and workmanship from almost any other.

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