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rural Medieval Village

Cornelius Clifford
Abdelkader Ounadjela (Order #41170127)
 rural Medieval Village
Fantasy Floorplans
Maps, both detailed and large scale, shewing and describing a ‘typical’
medieval rural village. Based on traditional, historic and existing
English villages and designed for fantasy role playing games. Including
five large maps; house and building descriptions, and details of all of
the householder’s and many of the other inhabitants.

Page Contents
3 Map of the entire village
4 A bit about the village
5 Map of North west quarter
6 Map of North east quarter
7 Map of South west quarter
8 Map of South east quarter
9-15 Householders of the village

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 A Bit About this Medieval Village
This medieval village is based on any number of
real villages in England. It is, fairly typically for an
inland rural village, strung out along one main road.
This runs from the top of the map, where it is called
North Road, and down to the bottom left, where it
has become West Strete (or street.) This main street
widens at the centre of the village to create a market
place, in the middle of which there is a market hall
and the village well. The fact that the village has a
market is a clear sign that it will, in all likelihood,
develop into a town one day. In later medieval times
the definition of a town was any large settlement
where a regular market was held. In reality, all rural
villages tend to have an informal market, here the
farmers come and sell their excess produce (whatever
they do not eat themselves) often doing so quite
simply from the back of their cart. In fact, everyone
sells their wares from time to time; ‘shops’ only really
come into being in settlements with much larger
populations than this one. But they all develop from
the ‘work’ shop of the artisan, or the warehouse of a
merchant. Since this village has a population of less
than a hundred or so adults, it is unlikely a dress
shop, say, would be able to make enough money to
cover the rent. If, however, the owner of the shop
was a dress maker, who sells the dresses she makes
from the same ‘front’ room as she makes them in,
then that becomes a more viable business or trade. In
this village, this is how the majority of the ‘shops’
work. Even the butchers buy live animals from the
local farmers, ‘butcher’ them out the back, and then
sell the various ‘cuts’ of meat to the other villagers.
So this village is almost self-sustaining, with most
things the people need being made or grown in or
near the village. There are a few exceptions to this,
things that are not available locally, have to be
transported from some distance away, and are
therefore expensive and scarce. Examples of this
include salt, metals of all sorts, furs and spices.
The road running through the village is a highway,
which means there will be travellers passing through,
who might stay at the inn, or even buy some of the
local produce. This may be why the village sprang up
here in the first place, being a convenient place for
travellers to stop, maybe a days walk from the nearest
town. This is a busy, comfortable rural village, where
most folks are occupied in agriculture in some way or
in some associated activity, such as blacksmithing,
carpentry or butchery.
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The Lord of the Manor, who lives in the Manor
House, effectively ‘owns’ all of the village. In reality,
he is the feudal Lord of the village, which is in, or on,
his manor, and in turn he owes fealty to his Lord (a
duke perhaps) who in turn owes fealty to the king. So
the Lord of this Manor only ‘owns’ the village at the
pleasure and consent of his master, and ultimately of
the King. In the early medieval period, manors
changed hands quite often. Lords and Nobles who
fell out of favour with the King or their overlord
might loose all, or some, of their manors. Later, land
ownership becomes more and more stable, until
manors like this one only change hands in the event
of the Lord having to sell up because he has become
insolvent, been convicted of treason, or some such.
Nearly everyone in the village as a consequence
pays rents to the Lord. He is treated with due respect
by the peasants, farmers and artisans. It is worth
remembering that the Lord of the Manor not only
has economic power over his tenants. He is also the
military leader in the event of war or rebellion. And
he is the judge in the local court (often held in his
house) here he not only judges and unravels the petty
disputes of his subjects (in the petty sessions court)
but often has the power of life and death over them
too. A proven cattle thief might well be hung by the
neck on gibbet hill, and his corpse left there to rot in
the sight off all who pass by, as a lesson in obedience.
All this on the personal judgement of the Lord of the
Manor. More often he would pass sentence on minor
crimes such as poaching or oath breaking. Very
serious crimes might be judged by this Lord’s
superior (the Duke) or even the King, who travels his
lands administering justice. But peasants, being
‘owned’ by the Lord of the Manor, could often be
judged by that Lord, and duly hung if he thought that
the appropriate punishment!
This is a prosperous, peaceful village, most of the
people; peasants, farmers and villagers, have enough
to eat and are loyal to their Lord. Generally they get
on with their own business, fulfil their feudal
obligations and are content with their lot in life.
Outside of the village itself, there are a good
number of smallholdings, farms and cottages, all of
whom rely on the village as somewhere that they can
sell excess produce and buy the things they need.
Most of these would also be tenants of, and beholden
to, the Lord of the Manor.
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 Householders of the village
Alchemist (East side of Market place) Blacksmith’s & Forge (West street)
The Alchemist is an ancient man, he lives here with The smith is a large, tough and loud-mouthed man,
one young apprentice. He is a miserable old man, who likes to quench his considerable thirst in the Ale
who prepares salves and medicines, herbal and House opposite his forge. Not a man to pick a fight
magical, for the people of the village. with, his face is scarred from some ancient battle. He
lives here with his large wife, three vigorous and
Ale House (West street) argumentative sons, and half a dozen smaller
A jolly, fun house run by a fat Alewife and her quiet children.
husband. They live here with two buxom daughters
and a handful of noisy, friendly dogs. Brewer (near South field)
The Brewer makes beer and cider (using apples from
Archery butts (off Back lane) his own orchard next door) which he sells to the Inn
Here the villagers practise archery every Sunday, on and Alehouse. He lives here with a wife, four
sunny days this can become a picnic. Around thirty children and an apprentice.
of the villagers have longbows and they are obliged,
by law, to practise every Sunday. Butcher (East side of Market place)
The smaller of the two butcher’s shops in the village,
Back Lane who are in friendly competition. This one is run by
A narrow, winding lane, which runs southwards from an older man and his red-faced wife. Their children
behind the Manor House towards West close, where have all left home.
it joins West End lane.
Butcher (West side of Market place)
Baker (West side of Market place) The larger of the two butcher’s establishments, this
The Baker is a thin, pasty-faced man, he runs the one is run by a fat and cheerful fellow, his large wife
Bakery with his eldest son, his wife sells the bread and about a dozen vigorous and healthy children.
and cakes from the front room. They have a daughter
working (and living in) at the manor House as a Candle Maker (West street)
chamber maid. A small man, who spends his day dipping his wicks in
beeswax (which he buys from the beekeeper) or
Bailiff (North road) tallow (animal fat) for the cheaper candles, which he
The Lord of the Manor’s agent in all business around gets from the butchers.
the Estate and village. The Bailiff is a tough-nosed
and cunning man, who lives in this house with his Carpenter (West side of Market place)
wife and six children. The Carpenter is a middle-aged man, strong and plain
but reliable. He lives here with his wife and a couple
Bard/Poet (Eastgate street) of teenage children. As well as doing woodwork and
The Bard is a bachelor, even though he is middle carpentry, he also acts as Undertaker for the village;
aged. Sometimes he goes off, travelling round the making coffins for the newly dead and helping the
great estates of the county and entertaining the Lords Verger (Cleric) dig their graves in the Church yard.
and Ladies in their halls. He lives here on his own
and is a lonely fellow, except he is good friends with Cattle Thief (in Horse Dealer’s yard)
the musician who lives on the opposite side of the Official this dark and shifty character claims he
street. works for the Horse Dealer. However, he always eats
fresh beef and yet never buys anything from either
Bee Keeper (Eastgate street) butcher! But everybody knows he is a cattle thief,
A humble and quiet man, who is old and infirm. He even the Lord of the Manor has his suspicions. It is
lives here with his friendly wife and thousands of probably only a matter of time before this fellow gets
bees in numerous bee hives in his small garden. The caught and swings (from the gallows) for it. He has a
Beekeeper sells his honey, for a fair price, to any who rough wife, who likes her cider, whom be beats from
knock on his door. time to time. Nobody really likes either of them.

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 Householders of the village
Church (Church lane) Corn merchant (North road)
A fair sized Christian church, built by the Lord’s A tough wheeler and dealer. He buys all kinds of
family, and other prominent villagers, to ensure their grain; corn, wheat, barley, oats and so on, from the
eternal salvation. This is the domain of the Vicar, farmers and villagers, which he then sells either to the
who is assisted by the Cleric, who has the title of Baker, or more often has transported to the nearer
verger but would really like to be vicar himself. towns by the Waggonier/carrier. The Corn Merchant
thinks very highly of himself and is fairly prosperous,
Church Lane he is unpopular with the farmers and peasants who
A fair sized lane running south east from the church think he cheats them. He lives here with his wife and
and out into the countryside, it leads to several farms. a pretty daughter.

Church Yard (Church lane) Courtyard (Manor)

An ancient churchyard, older than the church itself In the centre of the Manor House complex of
(which is less than a hundred years old) with an buildings there is a fair courtyard, paved in stone,
ancient yew tree overhanging the gate and lots of old with a well and a couple of exotic orange trees.
stone gravestones, including a few Celtic crosses and
menhir-like stones covered in ancient runes. Doctor of Physicke (North road)
The Doctor and healer in the village is the younger
Cleric (East side of Market place) son of a cousin of the Lord of the Manor and the
This man, a weasely sort of a fellow, lives here on his only man in the village to have been to University.
own and acts as verger in the church. He is He is a kindly man, who does his best to heal the
ambitious, sly and a bit creepy. sick, for a fee. The Doctor has to buy some of his
medicines from the Alchemist, whom he despises
Coachman (Eastgate street) and thinks of as a magician and fraud who sells quack
This jolly chap lives here with his wife and three or medicines to gullible peasants. The Doctor has a
four small children. He works sometimes for the lovely wife and six happy children.
Waggoner/Carrier but more often for a coaching
company whose stage coaches stop at the inn several Dower House (North road)
times a week. He is often away for days at a time, The home of the Lord’s mother, an ancient and
driving staging coaches up and down the highways. tough old lady with a formidable tongue and an iron
will. She would have preferred to stay in the Manor
Cobbler (North road) but the Lord’s wife refused to marry him unless he
A small and thin man, who makes the shoes and turfed his crotchety old mother out into the Dower
boots of the village. He lives here with a plain wife house, which was especially built for this purpose.
(who is a gossip) and one small son.
Dressmaker (North road)
Common, the (off West street) This lady makes dresses, hats and clothes for the
A large and semi-wild unfenced patch of land to the women of the village, especially the wealthier ones.
south of the village. Here the villagers herd sheep, She lives in this house with a mouse of a husband,
pigs and cattle. About a third of the villagers have the who sometimes works as a farm hand.
right to graze their animals here. Others do so, even
when they do not have the right to. This particularly Eastgate Street
is true of pigs; most of the villagers seem to keep one A good lane that leads out into the countryside and
or two in their yards and gardens. leads to a number of farms and distant hamlets.

Cook (Eastgate street) Farm hand (West street)

This fat lady works as a cook at the big house (the Most farm workers live on the farms or in cottages in
Manor) but lives out in a modest house in Eastgate the countryside, so this fellow is unusual. He is a
street. She lives alone but the old Sea captain next simple fellow and lives here with his wife and a
door has always fancied her. couple of small children.

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 Householders of the village
Farrier (East side of Market place) Great Field (off Back lane)
A small time Farrier (he shoes horses) who does a lot A very large field behind the Manor House, here the
of work for the Horse Dealer round the corner and Lord’s herds of sheep are kept for most of the year.
also acts as a kind of ‘vet’ for the village. He is hated
by the Blacksmith; they are in fierce competition for Grocer (West side of Market place)
the horse shoeing trade of the area. He lives here This man, his wife, and several cheeky children live
with a pretty young wife. here, they sell all sorts of dry goods and groceries.
Some they buy from local farmers, or passing tinkers,
Forest, the (off Wood lane) others, like spices and salt, they have to import into
A wide area of woods and forest in which might be the village a great cost; usually these goods are
found all manner of wild animals, including, bears, bought in by the Waggonier/Carrier.
wolves, wild boar, foxes, badgers and deer. The Lord
of the Manor likes to hunt in this wood, as well as in Haberdasher (East side of Market place)
his park. Some of the villagers are permitted to take A store selling ribbons, cloth, pins, needles, hosiery,
their pigs into the woods to rummage for acorns and and many other fripperies. The Haberdasher is a soft
beech nuts. But woe betide any villager caught man, and his wife is softly spoken too.
poaching by the Gamekeeper. A whipping would be
the mildest punishment the Lord would mete out for Horse Dealer (East side of Market place)
poaching. A very dodgy gentleman (or at least, he claims to be a
gentleman) who moved into the village from foreign
Game Keeper (Eastgate street) parts (the next county perhaps) a few years ago. He is
The Game Keeper works for the Lord of the Manor, a devious, untrustworthy fellow, who would think
raising pheasants in the woods, herding the deer in nothing of dyeing a horses fetlocks to disguise its
the Lord’s park and setting traps for poachers. He is origin or feeding it herbs to make it more or less
a nasty man, who lives here with his wife and two lively. He rents a shed in his yard out to a Cattle thief.
sulky children.
Hostler (North road)
Gardener (East side of Market place) A Hostler, or Groom, who works for the Lord of the
This gardener works full time for his Lordship at the Manor, caring for a number of fine horses and
Manor. He is a kindly man, who lives here with his ponies. He lives in this modest cottage with his
wife. They have several grown up children. young wife and a couple of children.

Gardener (Church lane) Huntsman (North road)

This small time jobbing Gardener will dig, plant and The Huntsman who lives in this small cottage is a
sow for a few pennies a day, for anybody in the dark, shifty fellow, who never looks you in the eye.
village who wants to pay him. He lives in this tiny He works for the Lord of the Manor, snaring game
cottage with his wife. birds and animals in the forest to grace his Lordship’s
table and satisfy his, and his guests’ appetites.
Gibbet Hill (off West street)
The site of the village gallows, thankfully not put to
Inn (North road)
use for some years. Here the wrong doers who have The large Inn on the North road is the only place for
committer capital crimes (stealing livestock, murder,
strangers to stay in the village. The regular stage
rebellion and the like) are sent to their deaths at the
coaches passing along this highway stop at the inn,
Lord of the Manor’s judgement. sometimes for the night. A hearty meal and excellent
beer can be had here for a few silver pennies. The
Granary (Corn merchant) landlord is a jovial fellow and gives a hearty greeting
The Corn merchant stores a considerable amount of to all who cross his threshold. His wife cooks in the
grain here. Although it can be empty; depending on kitchen and he employs a couple of stable lads and
the season and the briskness of his business. barmaids from the village.

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 Householders of the village
Joiner (North road)
This joiner makes wooden things (furniture, oak
framed buildings) that require ‘joints’ to hold them
together. He is more skilled than a carpenter (who
uses nails and rough wood) and so can charge more
for his work, which is often very fine. The joiner
looks down on the village carpenter. He lives here
with a wife and several children.
Kitchen Garden (Manor)
This is a productive garden where many vegetables,
fruits and herbs are grown for the Manor table. It is
worked by the Lord’s gardener and a couple of
apprentices. There are neat rows of every vegetable,
fruit and so on, imaginable that will grow in this
climate. This garden provides a lot of the food for
the Manor, and is an essential element in the life of
the Manor. The Gardener (who lives in the Market
place) has the right to sell off excess produce and
keep half of the proceeds, giving the rest to his Lord.
Lord’s Manor (North road)
The Lord lives in this magnificent Manor House with
his wife, two small children and half a dozen
servants. He is a fair and just Lord and treats his
tenants and peasants well. Obviously the Lord of the
Manor is the richest person in the village, in fact he
owns the whole place; every house, field, and tree.
Man at Arms (East side of Market place)
This is a professional soldier, he has served the Lord
of the Manor directly, and also fulfilled the Lord’s
military obligations (in return for money) on several
occasions by soldiering for the duke in the Lord of
the Manor’s stead. He is a good solider and a highly
skilled swordsman. The man-at-arms lives in a
cottage with his wife, they keep a good vegetable
garden out the back.
Manor Park (off North road)
This is the Lord’s deer park, here he keeps a herd of
wild deer, which is cared for by the Gamekeeper. The
Lord’s bailiff often puts the sheep, cattle and even
horses out to graze on the park. The villagers are not
allowed to even enter the park without permission. It
is a kind of country playground for the Lord and his
family, where they go walking, riding and hunting.
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Market Place
A wide area in the main street where markets are held
weekly (on most Saturdays) and fairs held once a
year, in late September. This is the hub of the village
where people gather to meet and talk or gossip. The
market hall provides a focal point, as does the village
well. Around the well there are nearly always half a
dozen women collecting buckets of water or washing
their laundry on the stone steps.
Market Hall (in Market place)
A large timber framed hall sits on many stone pillars
at the centre of the market place. This hall is used for
meetings of various sorts; village moots, guild
meetings and also social occasions, dances and merry
making. In the undercroft, between the pillars, is
where the market stalls are placed on wet Saturdays.
In fact on most days there will be usually someone or
other selling some sort of produce amongst the
pillars beneath the market hall.
Mill (West street)
Seventy or eighty yards off the map, by the river,
further down West Street, the Lord’s Mill can be
found. Here the Miller, his wife and two sons live.
They grind the corn and wheat of the village, in
return for a fee and a share of the flour. Two thirds
of the flour and coin collected by the Miller goes to
the Lord of the Manor in rents and fees. In return for
this privilege the Lord gives the Miller a monopoly
on grinding grain; it is forbidden for anyone else on
the manor to do so, on pain of severe punishment.
The Miller is not much included in the village social
life, partly as a result of his unpopular position, and
partly because he simply lives some distance from the
town. He is also a bully, as are his two rude and
cocky sons.
Musician (Eastgate street)
This impoverished gentleman plays a number of
different instruments; a lyre, a crumhorn, brass horn
and fiddle. He plays at dances, for a fee, and also
teaches aspiring shopkeeper’s and artisan’s children
to play. He is a mellow chap and a friend to the
Poet/Bard who lives across the road. He comes from
a good family but has no money and married a
laundry maid. They are poor but happy.
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Old Maid (East side of Market place) Yet he eats well and is often seen walking about the
This old lady never married, she inherited a bit of countryside with a bloody canvas sack over his
money and the lease of her house, from her father, shoulder. He lives here alone and seems to like it that
and has lived frugally on it ever since. The Old Maid way. A dark and mysterious fellow who does not
is a gossip and a snob. A useful source of drink in the Alehouse or the Inn with the other
information, even if most of it is scandal and tittle- village men.
tattle.
North Field (off North road)
Old Close (off West street) A fair field, used by the peasants and yeomen for
A well enclosed field used to gather together the grazing, north of the Manor House.
flocks, and sort them by ear marks and brands, at the
end of summer. Many go off to be fattened up, North Road
slaughtered and salted down at that time of year. The The main road leading out of the village northwards
Old Close is also used for fairs, gypsies often camp and towards a nearby town, which is about fifteen
there too. The Lord owns the field but he is pretty miles away.
relaxed about who can use it and when. A good place
to camp out, so long as fires are contained and Rat catcher (West End lane)
nothing suspicious (especially towards livestock) is The rat catcher has sharp features and a moustache;
done by the campers. some folks tease him that this makes him look like a
rat. This amuses rather than offends him. He not
Orchard (Brewer) only catches rats (with ferrets and a tough little terrier
An apple orchard owned by the Brewer. dog) but also deals with any kind of pest or vermin,
in return for a fee, of course.
Orchard (Manor)
The Lord’s personal orchard, here his gardener grows Retired Soldier (North road)
a variety of delicious eating apples, pears, quinces and This gentleman is a broad-chested, outgoing fellow,
so forth. with an enormous beard and a great sense of
humour. He loves telling tales of his adventures in
Pavilion (Manor) exotic places (battles and sieges in neighbouring
An octagonal pavilion on the edge of the Manor countries) in return for a pint or two of ale in the Inn
Park, where his Lordship entertains his friends and or the Ale house; he can usually be found in one or
family before the hunt and also holds picnics. the other.

Pig Herder (West street) Sea Captain (Eastgate street)

This Pig Herder looks after the Lord’s pigs, moving Obviously this sailor has retired, for he lives a long
them about the common and the forest. He also way from the sea. He married a bar maid from the
keeps an eye on the other pigs of the village. He is a village and came back to live with her. He is quite a
dirty, smelly man, as you might expect. He has a wife, clever chap (having navigated the high seas and
who also looks a bit piggy around the jowls. They are commanded a crew of men) but he tends to keep his
well matched, to each other and their occupation. skills and talents to himself. His wife is a lot younger
than him but loves him dearly.
Pleasure Garden (Manor)
Behind the manor there is a pleasant pleasure garden Scribe (East side of Market place)
where the lawns are kept trimmed (for playing games One of only half a dozen people in the village who
on) and flowers and herbs are cultivated. can read and write. The scribe will copy documents
or write letters in return for a modest fee. He wears
Poacher (West street) little round glasses, long flowing robes and has a long
Obviously this man does not admit to being a grey beard.
Poacher; he claims to be an out-of-work farm hand.

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South Field (off Church lane) Vicarage lane
One of the three fields (West, South, and North A short lane leading off North street to the Vicarage.
fields) where the peasants have strips that they
plough, farm, or keep their livestock on. Waggonier/carrier (West side of Market place)
The Waggonier/carrier runs a business moving
Stable Yards (Manor) things; anything from pieces of furniture, to sacks of
There are two stable yards where the Lord’s horses grain, to an entire cottage full of belongings; for
and ponies are exercised and groomed by the anyone in the village who need his services. He has a
Hostler. Younger members of the Lord’s family also pair of good cobs (middle weight working horses)
learn to ride here and practise riding, hunting and which pull either his massive wagon, or a smaller
mounted fighting skills in these yards. flatbed wagon, both of which he owns. He has a wife
and several children, the second eldest, a bright boy,
Stables (Inn) hopes to takes over the business one day.
The Innkeeper is one of the few people in the village,
other than the Lord of the Manor, who owns more Weaver (down Weaver’s lane)
than one horse. He keeps three or four good riding This sensible fellow and his wife have several looms
ponies in the stables behind the Inn. These can be in their house where they turn some of the wool
hired for a couple of silver pennies a day. Customers’ shorn from sheep in the village and around about,
horses are also kept in theses stables, when they are into course cloth, or homespun as it is sometimes
staying at the Inn. called. They dye it with vegetable dyes and do a fair
job. Better quality cloth can be obtained elsewhere,
Stables (Manor) but is a lot more expensive. They do a good amount
Here the Lord keeps his horses; he has several; a war of work for the wool merchants too.
horse (a stallion,) two mares, a couple of foals and
half a dozen ponies. The Hostler, or groom, cares for Weaver’s Lane
them and is paid wages in coin by his Lord. A lane leading to Back lane, past the weavers’
workshop and house.
Store (Grocer)
The Grocer has a store in the yard behind his house. Well (centre of Market place)
Here he keeps extra stock of the various kinds of dry The main source of clean water for the village, here
goods and products that he sells in his shop. women fill their buckets and jugs, wash their clothes
and gossip.
Tanner (Eastgate street)
This man smells slightly of urine (which is used in the West End lane
tanning process) all of the time. He treats, scrapes A narrow lane leading from the top of West street to
and cures the skins of all kinds of domestic and wild the West fold.
animals for the other folk of the village. He is a hard
working and nice enough fellow but has never West Field (off Back lane)
managed to find a wife who will put up with the A large ploughed field, one of three in the village
smell that comes with his job, so he is a lonely man. where the peasants and smallholders have strips they
plant and plough.
Vicarage (Vicarage lane)
Here the Vicar, a portly gentleman of good family, Westfold (off Back lane)
lives with his wife and children. He is a good man, A large grassy field where animals are grazed and
and fulfils his duties to Church and community well. penned. Technically the Lord’s own land but he
His house is the largest and grandest in the village, permits the villagers to graze their sheep and cattle
after the Manor House. He rather likes a drop of port (but not pigs, who would dig up the turf) here some
wine in the evening. of the year.

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Abdelkader Ounadjela (Order #41170127)

 Householders of the village
West Street
The bottom half of the main road or highway
through the village, running south and west from the
Market place.

Wood Cutter (near South field)

This large, broad-shouldered and tough man lives
here with an attractive wife and four small children.
He works in the forest, cutting trees down with his
axe, and then either sawing the logs into pieces small
enough for firewood, or supplying whole tree trunks
to the carpenter and the joiner for their raw materials.
All of the trees in the village belong to the Lord and
the Wood Cutter works for him. He is permitted to
sell some firewood himself, so long as he pays the
lord six tenths of the income generated by this
activity. The Wood cutter’s activity is supervised by
the Lord’s Bailiff.

Wood Lane
A leafy lane running parallel to the Market place, with
the Forest all along the east side. It is a favourite spot
for lovers to meet.

Wool Merchant (West side of Market place)

One of two wool merchants in the village, this is the
more prosperous of the two, he buys up fleeces from
the farmers and peasants, gets them washed and de-
bugged, and then sells them in towns far and wide.
He loves travelling and his wife is disgruntled about
the time he spends away from home. But he makes
plenty of money at it, so she doesn’t complain too
loudly!

Wool Merchant (Church lane)

The second of the Wool merchants in the town, this
fellow concentrates more on local trade, although he
does send some fleeces abroad, with the help of the
Waggonier. He also puts a lot of work the Weaver’s
way and they have a good working relationship as a
result.

Abdelkader Ounadjela (Order #41170127)