Eyam

British  

/ 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

Three miles away, the head teacher of Eyam CE Primary School - Oona Gilbertson - is concerned about falling pupil numbers in recent years.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024

The most famous voluntary cordon, according to Joseph P. Byrne, a historian at Belmont University in Nashville, was of the English village of Eyam.

From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2014

Grateful people from other villages left food outside a circle of stones around Eyam.

From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2014

Knowing that the departing villagers would spread the disease, he exhorted them to quarantine themselves in Eyam to save the rest of Derbyshire.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Derbyshire are numerous caves—at Castleton, Bradwell Eyam, Matlock, and Buxton—but they are all natural, except such as are old mine- workings.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould