You are a traveller in 1067 visiting Hamtunshire in southern England. You want to get back to your family in France after being a freeman for a noble family in the large medieval town of Canterbury. There are many towns around this area as it is right after the Norman Conquest but this town is the only one with a large enough port to have the ships that could cross the Channel to Dunkerque in France. In Hamptunshire, when you get past the fairytale looking city gates, you are met with unpaved streets and town houses lining them. With their ovehanging upper floors, the houses block sunlight from reaching the streets, giving them a gloomy and dark feeling. Walking along the streets you can clearly smell the stench coming from people throwing trash in ditches, cannals and out of their windows as the sanitation was very bad. At the market, you can see colorful signs as many people were illiterate. The huts for pesants are lined up closely and are tiny and have no windows. The lord's house is the biggest of them all. The farmers who work for the lord lives there with the lord's family. The church near the lord's house acts like a gatheing place at every event. The strip farms are very important, if crops aren't produced, many people faced the risk of starvation.
Sources: What was life like in medieval society? BBC Bitesize Life in a medieval town - TimeRef Medieval England - daily life in medieval towns - Britain Express
