Eyam
Major Settlement in the Parish of Eyam
Historical Forms
- Aiune 1086 DB
- Ayum 1200 P
- Aium c.1240 Deed
- Aihum Hy3 WollCh
- Eium, Eyum 1225 ClR 1230 FF 1236 Fees 1520 WollCh
- Eyghum 1325 Pat
- Eyhum 1341 1436 WollCh
- Eyom 1215 LichChart 1330 Ass 1332 Middleton 1437 HarlCh
- Eyam 1446 DbCh 1450 Pap 1467 DbCh
- Eyham 1431 FA 1437 Fine 1454 IpmR 1485 DbCh
- Eam(e) 1570 DbAxxvii 1576 Woll Eliz ChancP
Etymology
This is from ēgum , the dat.pl. of ēg , which in this case probably means 'land between streams', the hamlet being situated between Hollow Brook and Jumber Brook.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Birds's Wood
- Black Hole Mine
- Bole Hill
- Bradshaws Mine
- Cliffstile Mine
- Cross Low
- Cucklet Church
- The Delf
- Eyam Dale
- Eyam Edge
- Eyam Moor
- Fieldend Gate Lane
- Gregory's Plantation
- Hanging Flat
- Highcliffe
- Highcliffe Mine
- Hollowbrook Wood
- Ladywash Mine
- Linen Dale
- Lover's Leap
- Lydgate
- Middleton Engine Mine
- Mill Lane
- Mompesson's Well
- Old Twelve Meer's Mine
- Riley Graves
- Rock Hall
- Shepherd's Flat
- Shining Cliff
- Sir William Hill
- Stanage Ho
- Auton Crofts