Why Did Medieval Towns Have Walls?

[@theresawilson2647]

I just found your channel and I can tell it's going to be one of my favorites. Well told and good content. I love history.

[@larsrons7937]

Interesting topic, very informative video. And a lot of good footage.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks for your kind words!

[@SpiritWolf1966]

I enjoy all of TheUntoldPast videos

[@terryansell6641]

Very interesting video thank you from NZ

[@johnprice5784]

Why Did Medieval Towns Have Walls? To stop the roof from collapsing of course.

[@hashtag415]

What did the fish say when he accidentally swam into a wall? "Oh dam!"

[@cegeldenhuys7775]

So bad it is actually good

[@elizabethspedding1975]

You make learning a pleasure.

[@TheUntoldPast]

You are too kind! Thanks for your lovely comment!

[@robbabcock_]

Great video!

[@harryarcher4971]

Brilliant ❤️🇬🇧❤️I’ve walked the walls in York and Chester and Bridgnorth.. love history and this is grate 🇬🇧🌹🇬🇧brilliant story of English history 🇬🇧 and visited many castles all over England and Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@howey935]

Its great Harry.

[@tamsmith291]

@@howey935 lmao

[@darrenp1711]

Thanks for the videos. Really enjoying them 👍

[@ademcouper7026]

You do some good videos and you should do some more on Anglo Norman and Plantagenet history.

[@TheUntoldPast]

I will do! I was in Northern England a few weeks back and took lots of footage, so expect some more videos coming in due course!

[@fattyMcGee97]

Berwick upon tweed is a strange place to visit. It’s got a unique mix of Scotland and England in it to this day. Lovely city

[@tommytorquemada2186]

It's not a city it's a town by the way.

[@Moose803]

@@tommytorquemada2186 burgh?

[@ColKlinkerhofen]

I've lived in berwick for 17 years. It definitely is unique.

[@davidolien2828]

Your work is superb thank you!

[@crackmanguy1997]

Interesting love this vid and really like that British and Anglo Saxon kings tierlist

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks for your kind comment! :)

[@alisonhilll4317]

Come on don't you know ,Britain was built by Africans, come on my kids are taught this a school, with other BS.

[@Moose803]

@@alisonhilll4317 the whole world apparently

[@mainiac4pats]

Brilliant piece!

[@davidgarton2387]

This is in the days when people knew how to build. Love it.

[@sh.4409]

I can’t stand new build. Concrete and glass monstrosities! Or cheap looking brick with no character.

[@newmanoutdoors1564]

Love this kinda content

[@davidsaunders1125]

Sedgefield Village (Town) County Durham has a good sttetch of medieval town wall.

[@tnetroP]

...and they give a great reason for the towns to start taxing those within the walls.

[@KentuckyFriedChildren]

Subscribing before this channel absolutely *Blows Up.*

[@robnewman6101]

I have the Hardback DORLING KINDERSLEY DK EYEWITNESS GUIDES Book of MEDIEVAL LIFE. Discover medieval Europe - from life in a country manor to the streets of a developing town.

[@101jumper8]

For the same reason we need one on our boarder.

[@tomfoster2526]

Didn't work then and remains true today and will tomorrow.

[@828enigma6]

@@tomfoster2526 Won't work unless completed, maintained and guarded. The Border Patrol reports FAR LESS apprehensions where the wall has been completed.

[@barryjacobs8524]

To keep the enemy out or their children in.

[@the_rover1]

keep wifes and cattle in as well. you don't want your cows and child caring human with fun box in between her legs to be gone and/or raped.

[@UnionAndroidSRboi]

Not only medieval but long since even before antiquities...Jericho for example and Jerusalem.

[@scottcarpenter9993]

You left off the threat of wolf packs at night. Thus, wooden walls around towns and cities until 1850 and later.

[@828enigma6]

To keep bandits and warring factions out.

[@the_rover1]

back in the day, when the saying _'I'll build a wall and let the peasants pay for it'_ wasn't just a goofy slogan to catch votes, but dead serious lmao

[@leedsman54]

I’d have thought it pretty obvious why they had walls.

[@robnewman6101]

Greetings.

[@graemedurie9094]

Why did they have walls? To hold up the roof covering the town of course.

[@Eza_yuta]

To protect them from medieval titans

[@elbertderf803]

they did it so the chicken couldn't cross the road.

[@johnrandall125]

That was cruel and speciesist of them. Some of us believe in a better world! A world where any chicken can cross any road, free and unimpeded, without having its motives questioned by speciesist humans! Chicken rights! 🐔 Chicken rights now!

[@elbertderf803]

@@johnrandall125 right on brother, right on.

[@barryhayes2582]

@@johnrandall125 Pretty funny, John! I like your sense of humor! 😄🤓😂

[@blueyedevil3479]

Why did they have walls? Because they work…

[@MrAdrianOldfield]

You could talk a glass eye to sleep

[@mickharrison9004]

Got to have been for defence purposes.

[@Moose803]

Or to keep slave or serfs from escaping.

[@لاالهالاالله-ذ1م]

لماذا المسلمون لم يفعلوا اسوار

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

Keep the Covid out?

[@Dog.soldier1950]

Not that much different than the gated communities of today

[@Engelhafen]

Well in places like Vienna they kept the Muslims at bay

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Medieval society: protect citizens from pandemic. America:

[@trplpwr1038]

Mosquito control