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Eyam plague: The village of the damned
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Eyam plague: The village of the damned

ByCCBHS Editor January 6, 2022February 18, 2022

On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath – the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the remote Derbyshire village of Eyam. Their fate had been sealed four months earlier when the entire village made the remarkable decision to quarantine itself in an heroic attempt to halt…

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