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Eyam| Village in western Derbyshire, England, 16 km/10 mi northeast of Buxton; population (2001, Eyam and Hathersage) 3,700. Industries include the manufacture of shoes and the mining of fluorspar and lead. |
| Eyam lies in a district where many British and Saxon antiquities are found; its churchyard contains a 9th- or 10th-century runic cross, restored in 1788. |
| In 1665–66, most of the population of Eyam died of plague; this tragedy is commemorated in the annual local ceremony of ‘well-dressing’: decorating the well with a picture made of moss and flowers in supplication for a clean water supply (also practised in Tissington and Wirksworth). |
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