The History and Antiquities of Eyam (Derbyshire) - Illustrations (William Wood, 1903)

Eyam

THE
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

OF

EYAM

WITH A FULL AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE

GREAT PLAGUE,

WHICH DESOLATED THAT VILLAGE.

A.D. 1666.

BY WILLIAM WOOD.

“Some writer- why I know not- has styled this ancient village the Queen

of the Peak. If it be so, alas, she is indeed a widowed one! for there
she stands alone among the hills, the solemn monument of ‘a
MIGHTY WOE’, that still tingles appallingly in the ear of history,
and embues the whole district with a spirit of pensive gloom”.

Rambles in the Country.

LONDON:
THOMAS MILLER, NEWGATE STREET; SHEFFIELD, A. WHITAKER;
CHESTERFIELD, J. ATKINSON; BAKEWELL, J. GOODWIN;
AND THE AUTHOR, EYAM.

1842.

PRICE THREE SHILLINGS.