A walk around Eyam Moor and Eyam village

Malcolm on the edge - up on the moors

Heather nearby

sheep in the fields

don't eat this!  Autumn toadstools

coming out of the woods

Malcolm gets a Derbyshire oatcake with cheese and bacon...

...at the Barrel Inn - the highest pub in Derbyshire

village stocks outside Eyam Hall

plague cottages

Saxon Cross

The story of the plague village in Eyam church stained glass window

picturesque corner of Eyam

Today Malcolm and I headed off to Derbyshire.  We did a 2 hour walk starting on Eyam Moor and crossing moorland before dropping down into the wooded Bretton Clough and finishing at the Barrel Inn at Bretton, Derbyshire's 'highest pint'.  It was very nice inside and even had a roaring fire at one end, though we were quite warm after our walk.

Then we walked around the village of Eyam, famous because in 1665 when the plague broke out there (infected fleas were in a box of fabric from London)the villagers quarantined themselves for 14 months to spare spreading the plague to nearby places.  250 villagers died leaving only a handful of survivors.  Today it is a pretty village with notices on all the buildings that had plague victims, etc.  There are stocks outside Eyam Hall and a ring which once tethered bulls and bears in the old bull ring.