Summary: Villages
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In the middle ages most people lived in villages. These had grown up around the lord’s manor. Each village had the lord’s manor house at its centre. As well as the manor house, the other important buildings were the church and the mill which each farmer was obliged to use. The ordinary people lived close together and shared the large fields which were divided into strips.
The lord of the manor controlled much of the life of the people there and they had to do as he said even in their choice of wife!
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