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Chichester and its long history of weathering plagues and diseases

Chichester, like the rest of the world, has been affected by the outbreak of a highly infectious disease, coronavirus Covid-19. It has been claimed that this pandemic is the greatest challenge in a generation.

Eyam s Ultimate Sacrifice: Medieval Village Locked Down to Stop the Plague

Black Death Trotting on ‘The Devil s Hoof’ The Great Plague lasted from the beginning of 1665 until September 1666, representing the last major epidemic of the  bubonic plague  to occur in England, killing an estimated 200,000 (one quarter of London s population). Fatalities soared in the city of London in part because Londoners failed to self-quarantine, but this was not the case in the rural English village of Eyam located idyllically in the Derbyshire Dales within the Peak District National Park.     An early nineteenth-century scene showing the Eyam village pond, plague cottages, church tower, Talbot Inn and cottages, rectory gateposts and four groups of figures. (

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