In 1665, bubonic plague arrived in this bucolic Peak District backwater, in a parcel of cloth from London, and the villagers pledged to quarantine themselves. What happened next is a gripping chapter in our rural history, ... Follow the lane to the shore of the Upper Lake , then bear left, where a gravelly stretch of the Wicklow Way leads through woods back to Laragh. It's six miles; OS Ireland Discovery 56. The pub: Lynhams of Laragh (00 353 404 45345) is the classic ...
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