Eyam
Eyam is an English village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales that lies within the Peak District National Park.
Eyam is an English village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales that lies within the Peak District National Park. There is evidence of early occupation by Ancient Britons on the surrounding moors and lead was mined in the area by the Romans. A settlement was founded on the present site by Anglo-Saxons, when mining was continued and other industries later developed. However, Eyam's main claim to fame is the story of how the village chose to go into isolation so as to prevent infection spreading after bubonic plague was discovered there in 1665.
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Worth seeing in and around Eyam
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St Hugh’s Church, Foolow
St Hugh's Church, Foolow is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Foolow, Derbyshire.
3 km · Grade II listed church in Foolow, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Cucklet Church
Cucklet Church, formerly known as Cucklet Delph, is a cave west of Jumber Brook in Eyam, Derbyshire. The book Caves of the Peak District describes it as "A series of through arches in a prominent buttress." It lies within the Stoney Middleton Dale Site of Special Scientific Interest.
500 m · historic cave in Eyam, Derbyshire · Wikipedia - 03St Lawrence's Church, Eyam
St Lawrence’s Church, Eyam is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Eyam, Derbyshire.
300 m · church in Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Martin
St Martin's Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire.
1.5 km · church in Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Stoke Hall, Derbyshire
Stoke Hall is a Grade II* listed 30-room Georgian Palladian mansion near the village of Grindleford, Derbyshire, England, whose restoration featured on the BBC series Restoration Home and the follow-up Restoration Home - One Year On.
2 km · Grade II* listed mansion in the parish of Grindleford, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Riley Graves and Graveyard
Riley Graveyard is a 17th-century grade II listed cemetery in Eyam, Derbyshire.
800 m · cemetery in Eyam, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07All Saints' Church, Curbar
All Saints’ Church, Curbar is a Church of England parish church in Curbar, Derbyshire.
3.3 km · church in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia - 08Eyam Hall
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 Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building.
400 m · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia - 09Eyam Museum
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.
600 m · Local museum in Eyam, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Highlow Hall
Highlow Hall is a historic Elizabethan manor house in Highlow civil parish, near Hathersage, Derbyshire, England. It was owned by the Eyre family from approximately 1340 to 1842, at which point one branch of the family had already emigrated to the United States.
3.7 km · Grade II* listed house in Highlow, Derbyshire Dales, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Eyam Hall Manor House
A manor house managed by the National Trust.
- 02Plague Cottages
Original cottages dating from the 17th century during the plague outbreak.
- 03Eyam Church
Church Street.
- 04Eyam Hall Craft Centre
From Wikivoyage: Eyam, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Eyam Museum
Dedicated to the story of Eyam's isolation and sacrifice in the face of the bubonic plague.
From Wikivoyage: Eyam, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01The Miners Arms
Water Lane,.
- 02Village Green Tea Room
The Square,.
From Wikivoyage: Eyam, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Eyam
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 41 km · East Midlands (EMA), 55 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 65 km
- Stations
- Grindleford railway station, 3.9 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Eyam43 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £5–7
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Eyam51 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Eyam57 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Eyam
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Eyam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Eyam – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Eyam
Eyam is 18 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Grindlefordvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales, England2.4 km
- Stoney Middletonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England1.3 km
- Calvervillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.8 km
- Froggattvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire, England2.5 km
- Rowlandvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire, United Kingdom4 km
- Foolowvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3 km