From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Graeme Wall   
    writes:   
   >On 20/04/2019 18:47, Charles Ellson wrote:   
   []   
   >> Maybe more unlikely the further your origins are from SE England or   
   >> anyone vaguely noble [sic]; the bike hadn't been invented in the 11th   
   >> century.   
   >   
   >Horses existed and Shanks' pony for the poor. There was also coastal   
   >and river shipping. People moved around more than is generally   
   >realised. Harold got his army from London to Stamford Bridge and back   
   >to Senlac Hill in fairly short order.   
   []   
   That was an army, though. Although there _are_ exceptions, I continue to   
   be surprised how little people travelled in a lifetime; I'd say the   
   _majority_ of folk didn't move more than five or at most ten miles from   
   their birthplace. That's certainly the case for my ancestors. With   
   exceptions, often associated with social changes: quite a lot of mine   
   moved from Norfolk to Northumberland in 18xx, as mining took off.   
   (Although most of them then settled and didn't move much again.) Even   
   the coming of the railways didn't have the effect you might expect: I've   
   found cases where lifetime movement wasn't great, well into the 20th   
   century.   
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