MandT asked for more pictures so I will post a few more. This time they are all from Eyam where our friends live and where we are currently. Eyam is known as the Plague Village because the village shut itself off from the outside world in 1665 and 1666 to try and prevent the plague from spreading.
Our other friends from outside London are coming up today for dinner and to stay the night and that will be nice as we haven't seen them in a while. Their oldest daughter is the one getting married in August that we will be returning to the UK in a couple of months for.
Now on to the pictures.
First is Dunlow Lane from the top just down from the house where we are on Windmill Lane looking down on the village of Eyam.
Next is Rose Cottage, one of the still existing Plague Cottages in the village. This cottage is where the nine members of the Thorpe family died in late September and October in 1665. The cottage is still used as a residence today.
Next is a rather foreboding tombstone in the Eyam churchyard. And finally this picture might give you idea of the number of rock walls in this part of the country.
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