Quarantine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Eyam village, 1665 (plague)=== [[Eyam]] was a village in Britain that imposed a ''[[Cordon sanitaire (medicine)|cordon sanitaire]]'' on itself to stop the spread of the bubonic plague to other communities in 1665. The plague ran its course over 14 months and one account states that it killed at least 260 villagers.<ref>{{Cite book | last= Clifford | first= John G. | title= Eyam Plague, 1665β1666 | publisher= J.G. Clifford | year= 1989 | oclc= 57354126 }}</ref> The church in Eyam has a record of 273 individuals who were victims of the plague.<ref name="victims">{{Cite web|url=http://www.eyamplaguevillage.co.uk/index.php/eyam-plague/plague-victims|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311041739/http://www.eyamplaguevillage.co.uk/index.php/eyam-plague/plague-victims|url-status=dead|title=List of plague victims|archive-date=11 March 2012}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page