Eyam (3)

While the plague was rampant, normal church services and funerals were suspended, and families were expected to bury their dead away from the village centre. Consequently there are now several small burial plots dotted around the village margins.

This one is known as the Riley Graves, after the family who owned the land at the time. However, the burials are of the father and six children of the Hancock family, who all died within eight days in August 1666.

Picture taken: September 2019

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