It's really sobering to consider what it would be like to survive after 75% of the people you knew had died.
One of my favorite all-time reads was Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. It's a time-travel story involving a village much like the Eyam you just described. For all I know it could have been based on Eyam but as you say these events occurred in village after village. Have you read it?
I never heard of the twisted spire before!
I've not read that book, no.
It's the 'Crooked Spire' in Chesterfield, a large market-town in Derbyshire.