It’s also a place of unimaginable tragedy, sacrifice, and resilience. In the year 1665, Eyam was ravaged by the bubonic plague. As the disease spread rapidly throughout ...

It was the fall of 1665 in the village of Eyam in the Derbyshire Peak District of England. People had heard about the terrible outbreak of plague that year in London but there were no signs of ...

In a video recounting her visit, Jackie wrote: "In 1665, the plague hit Eyam and they locked down the village, separating Emmott Sydall from her fiancé Rowland Torre.A post shared by Jackie Todd ...

The entire village of Eyam in Derbyshire was quarantined during the Black Death in the 1660s, with some residents still meeting at a boundary to avoid catching the plague.

In the centuries since, the Peak District town of Eyam has become known as the 'plague village' after 260 of the village's residents died in just one 14-month period.

Eyam is best known for the devastating plague outbreak of 1665-1666. The disease - likely carried in a flea-infested bundle of cloth from London - arrived in the village, prompting an ...

A quaint village in Derbyshire has become a hotspot for dark tourism, owing to its sorrowful past that traces back to the Black Death in the 1660s. Over the centuries, the Peak District hamlet of Eyam ...

The Peak District village of Eyam in Derbyshire has become a dark tourism hotspot after 260 of the village's 350 residents died in just 14 months.