What common features would be found in a medieval town?

Main street running through the town with a center square and church at one end. If it was a wealthy town there could be a fountain in the center of the square. The streets could be dirt or cobbled. There may also be several branches of streets of the main street leading to merchant areas and business. Today, you can still see this format in many towns in Europe that began in the middle ages. Some of the streets still retain the names as well from that time.

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During the Middle Ages, the thing that was most commonly used to distinguish a town from a village was that the town had a royal charter for a permanent market. Market towns were chosen for their locations more than their sizes, because they did not want permanent markets too close to each other. In order to be a village, a settlement had to have a church, so a town would have to have at least one, but it could have more than one. A town did not have a cathedral, which was the distinguishing feature of a city.