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Mompesson's Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Eyam

Etymology

, commemorating the name of the Rev . William Mompesson , Vicar of Eyam during the plague years 1665 – 6 ; the well is said to be the spring into which articles and money were placed as a protection against the spreading of the disease .