AROUND THE SETTLEMENTS - It is the 1830s in a typical East Anglian village. The village is made up of newly enlarged farms, and as farm workers are gradually being turned out of the farmhouses there are some newly built small cottages or converted down-sized messuages for them to live in nearby, in some of the outlying areas. On a high spot of land is the brick windmill, replacing the old wooden mill, along with a mill house. There may be a bakehouse on the site, too. The village centre is the place to find the parish church and vicarage, and often a newly built chapel. The public house and a beerhouse are central, too, and within walking distance for most of the villagers. The blacksmith's shop is next to the road through the village. He doubles up as the farrier, too. There is also a wheelwright's shop. The cottages in the village centre are sometimes owned by a resident lord of the manor, living in the hall, or by tradespeople, such as the shoemaker, who are either live in them or rent them out to farm workers. A shop, that sells so much more than just groceries, absent in earlier times, has recently opened up. Not yet, but in future, a school will be erected.