Foxton on Moss
From Praemal
If Maidensbridge raises apples and Middleborough cuts timber, those approaching Foxton on Moss on the Baron's Road have no doubt that sheep and wool are the primary industry in the village. The trees surrounding Foxton have been cut back to create pasture land, and the biggest greenest hill in the area actually rises in the center of town, and is the communal sheep meadow Midwood Green. Those who aren't involved in raising the sheep are involved in spinning and weaving the wool or creating products with the locally made wool.
Foxton on Moss has a paved village center, and the road leading on to Middleborough is likewise paved. The village has a studied neatness to it, and old women with brooms spend much of their time carrying out a vendetta against dust and dirt in the village center surrounding Midwood Green. Animals who have the bad manners to relieve themselves here bring down the wrath of these older residents on their shepherds. Adventurers, a notoriously unclean group, face the suspicion that they will be equally messy (although hopefully in not precisely the same way), with gnarled hands clenching broom handles in anticipation.
Residents of Foxton on Moss look down on residents of Maidensbridge to the northwest as ignorant peasants and see themselves as more sophisticated. Naturally, the residents of Middleborough to the east treat the residents of Foxton on Moss in a similar fashion.
For the most part, the village does not use the Moss River for anything other than as a source of fresh water, and as a result, fine grassy banks line both sides of the river, and residents will fish there and the residents will picnic along its banks in good weather. The local stable also waters their ponies on its banks.
The mysterious phenomenon of fox dreams is largely unknown to outsiders.
Natives of Foxton on Moss are often have Fox as a surname.
