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Extract from the Eyam Travel Guides:
Within a year of September 7, 1665, the lonely lead-mining settlement of
EYAM
(pronounced "Eem"), five miles south of Hathersage and four miles northwest of Baslow, had lost almost half of its population of 750 to the bubonic plague, a calamity that earned it the enduring epithet "The Plague Village". The first victim was one George Vicars, a journeyman tailor who is said to have released some infected fleas into his lodgings from a package of cloth he had brought here from London. Acutely conscious of the danger to neighbouring villages, William Mompesson, the village rector, speedily organized a self-imposed quara...
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