England History : Village Life in Middle Ages

by Monique Barb - The Village was usually small with only a handful of cottages. A village was large if it had as many as two dozen cottages containing about 100 people. Besides the cottages and the manor house or castle there was usually a mill and a church. There were no shops in the village, although several villagers were part-time carpenters, smiths or wheelwrights. In some villages...