Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What was a medieval village like?
- Lifestyle
- They relied on a
constant supply of
water
- Work
- The carpenter helped to make houses,
mills, ploughs and carts
- Most people earned money by
working on land.
- An ironsmith would repair and make the
metal parts to ploughs and carts.
- Types of Buildings
- church and cemetery
- a vicarage
- a manor house
- a forge
- a water mill
- the houses of the:
village carpenter,
thatcher, potter,
mason, official and
unofficial beer
brewers
- Size and population
- 50 - 500 residents in a village
- Enviroment
- Cottages were dark,
smoky and un-healthy
- Villages were nearly always built near
a river.