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Horse Riding

Walking

Sailing

In the streets of London and Stratford-upon-Avon, horse riding was the most popular form of transport (for those who could afford a horse, which was mainly middle class workers). It was the quickest way to get across the countryside, and the city streets were built for the riding of them. Unfortunately, if you did own a horse, you would either have a tanner make your saddle for a reasonable price, or not have one at all. The issue was saddle making was not the fine craftsman's trade like it is today, and often these primitive saddles wouldn't be much more comfortable compared to riding without one at all. The richer, higher classed folk would have pay to be trasported in their own horse & cart, which was when one or more horses was attatched tp the back of a wooden cart for the passengers, and sometimes the driver to sit in.

If you were a peasant in the 16th and 17th century, which many of the 600,000 in London alone were, paid transport was very hard to come by. If you were a peasant and needed to move to a different destination, it was by foot. The journeys would be long and hard to navigate through the bustling London streets, and because peasants earned very low amounts of money, 90% of them had no shoes. This was especially painful in the cobble streets of the English capital, which would damage feet and leave permanent scarring. It was not just the peasants who walked, middle and upper-class folk would stroll to other areas if they were a short distance away, but for longer journeys this was an extremely rare occurance.

The River Thames that runs through the centre of London was and still is highly populated by boat travel. The boats running thorugh the Thames were mostly traders and travellers, but locals of London would often pay special 'boatmen' to take them across the river or to destinations along its banks. In the time of Shakespeare fro example, the river would be crossed constantly from London to Stratford-upon-Avon as many Londoners had to cross the Thames to reach Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which was in Stratford.

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