As part of our summer programme we recently had an afternoon conducted tour of Eyam, a village that has a place in history following an outbreak of plague in the 15th century.
In 1665 a tailor from Eyam ordered a bale of cloth from London to make up into clothes for the villagers, unwittingly triggering a chain of events that led to 260 Eyam villagers dying from the plague
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Between the first death and the last, the villagers set an extraordinary and enduring example of self-sacrifice by sealing off the village from the surrounding areas to prevent the disease spreading.
We rounded off our visit with a cream tea before returning in the wonderful September sunshine.
