The village of New Shepford is known throughout Jorvikshire as the cursed remains of a failed hundred in the Pigeon Hills to the West.

Location: Pigeon Hills Hundred
Approximate Population: Twenty families
Heritage: English and German.

New Shepford is located West of Grey’s Abbey, the farthest settlement of the Earl’s West Hundred. It includes a small order of monks who scrape out a living farming and herding goats. The next closest settlement is Thomas’ Village which is over twelve miles to the East of New Shepford.

New Shepford is the site of a lot of open space, appropriate for herding sheep. There is a thick tributary of the Rapid Creek running along the Western border of the settlement good for watering livestock. Locals call this southern tributary just “South Creek.” An ancient, overgrown forest along this tributary is a source of concern, but the flat areas to the West along the tributary make for good pasture and farmland.

Over the past five years, there has been talk of the settlement being cursed and the population of this seed of a new hundred began to dwindle as the Gladfelter family rapidly lost wealth and fell into poverty.

This settlement would be located where New Oxford is in our world.

The large open space to the northeast of the village is the old sheep grazing area.

The building north of the well in New Shepford is the open pavilion village hall.

The marketplace consists of open-air sheds.

To the left of this is the church and to the north a blacksmith.

Widow Ludwig's pub is to the south of the well.

* Widow Ludwig
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