The village of Eyam saw 260 of its residents killed by the plague On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the ...

The Peak District village of Eyam in Derbyshire has become a dark tourism hotspot after 260 of the village's 350 residents ...

Eyam lay on an important trade route between Sheffield and Manchester; if plague got into those cities, thousands would die. But this was England in the wake of a religious civil war, with the ...

Like the surrounding villages, Eyam, England—a farming settlement of roughly 800—was vulnerable when the bubonic plague, or Black Death, arrived on its doorstep from London in August 1655.

No one in England was in any doubt about the severity ... there is evidence that points in the other direction: people did flee Eyam to escape the plague. Deaths were concentrated among poor ...

One beautiful village in Derbyshire with a rather sad story has become known as the 'plague village' in the centuries since the Black Death.

Because plague-time rules meant ... to have first brought the disease to England. Certainly, it is also a sentiment shared by Tracy Chopping who runs the Eyam Brewery (sample ale: Quarantine ...

EYAM, England -- In this tiny gritstone village ... Accordingly, he often walked to the boundary of his plague-stricken village and called out his news to a friend who stood far enough away ...

On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the remote Derbyshire village of Eyam. Their fate had been sealed four ...

On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the remote Derbyshire village of Eyam. Their fate had been sealed four ...

The village of Eyam lost 260 people to plague in the 1660s - but thousands more in neighbouring settlements were saved by the villagers' remarkable decision to cut themselves off from the outside ...