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Don't avoid this home like the plague...<br />
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A pretty Peak District cottage with a dark past as a former plague graveyard has gone on the market for £725,000.<br />
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The Grade II listed home is in the Derbyshire village of Eyam, where three quarters of the village succumbed to the disease in the 17th century.<br />
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In the 18th century the tombstones were removed and a coaching inn was built, so the four-bedroom home has lots of period features.<br />
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But there is a plaque on the cottage commemorating its former tragic purpose.<br />
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Eyam, which is in the Peak District National Park, is world-famous for being the village that selflessly quarantined itself for a year in September 1665, so that it wouldn’t risk spreading the deadly plague.

BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)
Pic: PurpleBricks/BNPS

Don't avoid this home like the plague...

A pretty Peak District cottage with a dark past as a former plague graveyard has gone on the market for £725,000.

The Grade II listed home is in the Derbyshire village of Eyam, where three quarters of the village succumbed to the disease in the 17th century.

In the 18th century the tombstones were removed and a coaching inn was built, so the four-bedroom home has lots of period features.

But there is a plaque on the cottage commemorating its former tragic purpose.

Eyam, which is in the Peak District National Park, is world-famous for being the village that selflessly quarantined itself for a year in September 1665, so that it wouldn’t risk spreading the deadly plague.