Find a map of your local area.

Place some see-through paper over the map and mark on the centre of your village or town and those nearest to it. If you are in a city, choose a country area nearest to where you live.

Use the map scale to find out how far it is between your village or town and its neighbours. You would walk at perhaps 2 miles an hour (3 km an hour) over unmade or poorly made tracks. How long would it take to walk to a neighbouring village and back? This gives you an idea of how time-consuming it was to move about.

Now think of a suitable symbol for trees. Fill in the paper between the villages with this tree symbol. You only need to leave a small area around each village for fields. This gives you an idea of what the countryside was like in Tudor times.