Eyam
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Eyam 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
Eyam parish church
The Anglo-Saxon cross
The Boundary Stone
The village green and Church Street
Great Plague of London
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The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the most recent major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long Second Pandemic, a period of
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…Listed buildings in Eyam Derby plague of 1665, Great Plague of London (also in 1665) Eyam Plague Village website Archived 1 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine…
Collecting the dead for burial during the Great Plague
Rattus rattus, the black rat. Smaller than Rattus norvegicus, the brown rat, which later supplanted it, it is also keener to live near humankind. Timber houses and overcrowded slums provided excellent homes. The link between the rat as reservoir of infection and host to fleas which could transfer to man was not understood. Efforts were made to eliminate cats and dogs: if anything, this encouraged the rats. Body lice were also important plague vectors.
Two men discovering a dead woman in the street
Scenes in London during the plague