Eyam: The Plagued Village

One of the most devastating episodes of English history striking a secluded Peak District village and leading to the demise of a third of its population back in the 17th-century. But these deaths were caused by no human hand… And the unconnected discoveries of two corpses, one shrouded in stones and the other entombed in rock: two murders which have left mysterious imprints on both local landscape and legend. Armed with recently uncovered new evidence, we reopen an 18th-century coroner’s inquest file in a bid to solve a 250-year-old murder mystery. In this episode, we’ll investigate three separate stories, spanning three centuries, connected to one remote village. The three stories all share one thing in common: shocking and untimely death. The village is Eyam...
This 'Peak in the Past' historical episode interweaves investigation into the Eyam Plague of 1665-1665 with the historical events surrounding two murders well-known in Peak District folklore: the murder of William Wood of Eyam in 1823 and the murder of a "Scotch pedlar" at the Moon Inn, Stoney Middleton, following a dispute at Eyam Wakes back in the mid 17th-century.