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This section also describes the route to visit Froggatt Edge, Barbrook Moor and Hordron Edge From Chapel-en-le Frith take the A623
east and take the left turn to Eyam. At the village turn left then right a
shop where it is signed to a Youth Hostel. There is a car park where you
can stop to look around the village which is famous from the days of the
Black Plague. The village tailor had ordered a box of cloth from London in
1665. Five days later he was dead, and within 15 months so were 260 of the
village's 350 inhabitants. In 1665, whilst Black Death was decimating
England's Capital city, very few other parts of the country were affected
until they found they had transported it to their village in the
consignment of cloth. Rather than flee and spread the infection to the
surrounding districts, they voluntarily quarantined themselves within a
ring of stones, which marked the boundary to the village, until the plague
was done. For two summers the plague affected every household in the
village; but not a single case of Black Death was recorded anywhere else
in Derbyshire.
View towards Eyam Stone Circle
The cairn There is a large cairn further north. This is an banked circle with 10 stones of about 2-3ft (600-900mm) high. Wet Withens means “the wet land where willows grew” – it is certainly still wet.
Three of
the inward leaning stones among the heather
The tallest stone
Another view of the cairn
Some of the many stones and cairns around the moor |
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