Stonebows village

Stonebows Village was a small settlement and farmlands built around the Bridge Tower of the Bridge of Stonebows.A Fallohide clan, the Quill , had been commissioned to garrison the tower and charge a 3 copper toll to travelers. In the early years of the Shire colony Tarma agents continued to stir up resentment against Hobbits in Stonebows village and the farmlands, using the notion of paying a toll to "child-things and changelings" as a potent argument. The Quill aggravated the problem by conspicuously failing to collect "the King's Pence " from Hobbit travelers. The tolls, allegedly for the maintenance of the bridge and keep , were rumored to be spent on weapons for the Hobbit Dumuvurdur (K ."Houseguard" ) allegedly training around Hobbiton and Bywater .The Bridge Tower was maintained by the Shire-folk for a few centuries after the fall of Arthedain, but eventually its stones were put to better use elsewhere. High ground, in the form of two ridges built up into causeways by the Arnorians, reached close to the Brandywine at this point. The country on either side was a mix of woods, bog, and farms, fading away into brush and prairie eastward along the Great East Road.