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    Eyam ( /ˈiːm/) is an English village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales that lies within the Peak District National Park. There is evidence of early...
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    The Eyam Limestone (formerly known as the Cawdor Group, Cawdor Limestone or Eyam Group) is a geologic formation in the Peak District, England. It preserves...
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    Eyam Hall is a country house within the civil parish of Eyam, Derbyshire, located to the west of St Lawrence's Church, Eyam. It is recorded in the National...
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    Eyam Museum or as it is locally known Eyam Plague museum is a local museum in the village of Eyam, located in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England....
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  • Eyam is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 55 listed buildings that are recorded in the National...
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  • The Roses of Eyam is a historical drama by Don Taylor about the Great Plague that swept Britain in 1665/66. It is largely based on the events that happened...
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    Thomas Stanley (puritan) (category People from Eyam)
    at Eyam. A plaque was erected in the village detailing his life. St Lawrence's Church, Eyam Mompesson's Well The Roses of Eyam "Thomas Stanley". Eyam and...
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    St Lawrence’s Church, Eyam is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Eyam, Derbyshire. The church is medieval with elements from...
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    Riley Graveyard (category Eyam)
    is a 17th-century grade II listed cemetery in Eyam, Derbyshire. The cemetery, on the outskirts of Eyam, contains the graves of the Hancock family who...
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    various places. Notable quarantines in modern history include the village of Eyam in 1665 during the bubonic plague outbreak in England; East Samoa during...
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    William Mompesson (category People from Eyam)
    Church of England priest whose decisive action when his Derbyshire parish, Eyam, became infected with the plague in the 17th century averted more widespread...
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    Eyam Moor is a plateau-topped hill between the villages of Eyam and Hathersage in Derbyshire, in the Peak District of England. The summit of Sir William...
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    Derby plague of 1665 (category Eyam)
    [citation needed] Eyam Museum in the village of Eyam in the Peak District, Derbyshire, has a special emphasis on the Plague as it struck Eyam. Black Death...
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    Mompesson's Well (category Eyam)
    Mompesson's Well is a 17th-century grade II listed water well in Eyam, Derbyshire. The well is named for Church of England priest William Mompesson (1639...
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    Heriot-Watt University in 1966. Epworth Mechanics Institute, North Lincs, UK. Eyam, Derbyshire. Gainsborough. Room in Gainsborough Old Hall. Grimsby, Lincolnshire...
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    Castleton is the centre of production of a semi-precious mineral, Blue John. Eyam village is known for a self-imposed quarantine during the Black Death. Edale...
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    population. A 21st-century study of a 1665 outbreak of plague in the village of Eyam in England's Derbyshire Dales – which isolated itself during the outbreak...
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    when the bubonic plague suddenly strikes her small Derbyshire village of Eyam. Her next novel, March (2005), was inspired by her fondness for Louisa May...
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    Year Title Role Venue Ref. 2015 Eyam Joy Foster Oldham Coliseum Theatre Comfort and Joy Grace Oldham Theatre Workshop 2019 Prom! The Musical Lisette Oldham...
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    England. It is in the White Peak area of the Peak District southeast of Eyam and northwest of Calver, on the A623 road at the foot of the limestone valley...
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  • Shorland Adams (category People from Eyam)
    reputation during his tenure in the parishes of Eyam and Treeton. Reverend Shorland Adams was Rector of Eyam between 1630 and 1644, before being ejected by...
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  • Year Film Role Notes 1973 That'll Be the Day Terry The Roses of Eyam Francis Thornley TV film 1975 Three for All Tom 1976 Adventures of a Taxi Driver Tom...
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  • the type species based on teeth collected from Viséan-aged deposits of the Eyam Limestone in Derbyshire, England and Esclusham Mountain, Wales. The family...
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    Egstow Elmton Elmton Common Elton Elvaston Emmett Carr Etwall Etwall Common Eyam Fairfield Fallgate Far Duckmanton Far Laund Farhill Farley Farnah Green Fenny...
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    protected as listed buildings. Evesham, Worcestershire, on Merstow Green. Eyam, Derbyshire; 18th century, on the village green. Little Longstone, Derbyshire;...
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  • of Eyam that, when beset by the plague in 1666, quarantines itself in order to prevent the disease from spreading further. The plague that hit Eyam and...
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  • Bray The Bedlam, a mentally impaired character in the play The Roses of Eyam Bedlam (comics), a Marvel character Bedlam, British 1970s rock band featuring...
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    citing the use of the rhyme to headline an article on the plague village of Eyam in the Radio Times, 7 June 1973; title of "Ashes". New Scientist. "Christmas...
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    per cent of the population) in the capital. Other places hit hard included Eyam in Derbyshire, Derby itself and Norwich. Globalization and disease Abandoned...
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    Anna Seward (category People from Eyam)
    two stillbirths. Anna Seward mourned their loss in her poem Eyam (1788). Born in 1742 at Eyam, a mining village in the Peak District of Derbyshire, where...
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