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a tolerably good state of preservation; a yew tree had recently 
been planted at its foot. 
There is a curious custom in this churchyard of placing stone 
pillars at the four corners of the tomb, as shown in the accom- 
panying illustration. 
The interior of Eyam Church contains but little worthy of 
notice. 
After lunch, we went down Eyam Dale to take a picture of “The 
Haunted House.” Truly it is an “ unked ” place! and I suppose 
the scene of some outrage, which has caused its desertion and 
EYAM DALE, 
consequent decay. A gloomy sky and overhanging trees added 
to the melancholy of the spot, and we were not sorry to leave 
it for the more open part of the dale lower down, which is very 
picturesque. The woods of the Rock Gardens on one side, and 
the bold projections of limestone on the other, terminating with 
Blackwell Tor, a winding road and mumuring streamlet, the 
distance filled in with the green slopes of Middleton Pastures and 
the higher Moor, make up a fine picture. The “Golden Ball” 
public-house at the end of Eyam Dale, with Blackwell Tor in its 
