Describe a medieval village

Answer 1

Main street running through the town with a center square and church at one end. If it was a wealthy town there could be a fountain in the center of the square. The streets could be dirt or cobbled. There may also be several branches of streets of the main street leading to merchant areas and business. Today, you can still see this format in many towns in Europe that began in the middle ages. Some of the streets still retain the names as well from that time.

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During the Middle Ages, the thing that was most commonly used to distinguish a town from a village was that the town had a royal charter for a permanent market. Market towns were chosen for their locations more than their sizes, because they did not want permanent markets too close to each other. In order to be a village, a settlement had to have a church, so a town would have to have at least one, but it could have more than one. A town did not have a cathedral, which was the distinguishing feature of a city.

Answer 2

Things were different in different parts of Europe, but we could take England as an example.

An English village always had a church. The presence of a church was, in fact, the thing that defined a village. On the other hand, a village never had a permanent market, a second church, a mayor, or a town hall, because any of these things would make it a town, rather than a village. At least that was the case in the middle ages; later villages might have had some sort of market.

A village might have a blacksmith. It might have had a place where people could gather and have a beer, or even eat some diner, and such a place was usually the home of some serf who was making extra money on the side. A medieval village was normally associated with a manor, so there was very likely to be a manor house. There was possibly a rectory for the priest. And there was probably not much else.

Answer 3

DESCRIBING A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE

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Answer 4

The key features of a medieval village were:

• a church, with a small house for the priest nearby
• houses for the villagers, each surrounded by its own small plot of land with another, larger strip-like plot behind the house
• a main street through the centre of the village, generally unmetalled and sunken beneath the level of the surrounding land
• one or more manor houses, each surrounded by a ditch and wooden palisade or stone wall and comprising the house itself, barns, outbuildings and workshops
• many agricultural fields and pastures surrounding the village

Answer 5

bakery, blacksmith, church