The plague has come to Eyam and a number of the villagers have died. Rev Mompesson summons everyone to the church and says the village must agree to quarantine itself to prevent the plague from ...

1: The plague comes to Eyam - 2: The villagers decide - 3: The plague ends A three-part unit exploring the extraordinary events in 1665 - when the plague comes to the Derbyshire village of Eyam ...

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 ...