![]() ![]() So when you were coming up on a real township, you might see more of these small communities, near the larger one-they'd be anywhere from 20 minutes away to 3 hours walk away (12 miles), to a few on the edges that might be as far away as a day's walk. Not every village is going to have an inn (though it might have people willing to rent a bed).Ī town of 3000 would have these 10 or so communities orbiting it-sort of the Medieval version of the suburbs, with a slice of country in between them. Not every town is going to have the same amenities, and that's important to remember when building them. ![]() They were not always on a main road, but they would be next to resources (such as water).Ĭonsider as well that some of these towns would be built around a particular thing-a mill for instance-a particular town might be a place where everyone from the surrounding communities come to get their wheat ground, or their leather cured, or something specific to that township. Many of these satellite villages would only be a mile or two away from their towns-or even less, some would be a scant 1/2 mile. As to closeness, this rule about "a day's walk away" that people seem to be spouting all over the internet,-that goes right out the window. This happened in London-but as London grew, these communities were "eaten up" by the city itself by around the 17s. A large population place, such as a town or city with like 1,000 people, will actually be surrounded by "satellites" villages adjacent to these larger places. This isn't just a straight line on a road with miles between. Instead, there were a number of shop keepers, a tavern/inn, maybe a single guard and people who lived and worked inside the village, but for the most part, the population that you might see there would come from those coming in for the day to trade/buy/sell goods, who will later be going back to farmsteads within a day's walk.Ī town of, say 3,000 people actually would need about 10 villages and their surrounding farmsteads to support it. Now, there are also going to be communities in between smaller than your 400 person population-groupings of families and trading posts along major roads.Īlso, not that many people would have lived IN some of these small places. I think the estimate, and this is a low estimate, for England was that there were over 3,000 deserted Medieval villages that they hadn't discovered. Distances between Medieval towns varied quite widely, as did the population and size. ![]()
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