Bowshot

Though this tiny village was once “just a bowshot away” from the Faded Forest, long years of lumbering have put the edge of the woods much farther from the hamlet and its surrounding farms. Its central feature is a nameless tavern where farmers gather in the evening and travelers can find hot food and a warm bed.
This hamlet stands on the eastern side of the Coast Road, a few day's ride north of Owlshead. Named because it was just a bowshot away from the Faded Forest, it's been a logging center for a hundred years—and it's been so successful that the forest is now miles away to the east.
Bowshot consists of the Bowshot Inn, a sawmill, six farms (two run by men who shoe horses as well as any smith), and almost a dozen home woodcarvers who turn out yokes, coffers, wheel spokes, tool handles, and whimsical carvings. The place deserves mention because of recently discovered caves beneath its eastern fringes. They are entered from the horse-well behind the inn, and by at least one cave mouth in the stands of trees north and west of the hamlet.