Where did tudors go to toilet?

Answer 1

Life in Tudor Britain was harsh - the average life expectancy was just 35 years.

Most Tudor people lived in the countryside, but some people lived in towns or big Tudor cities like London, Bristol or Norwich.

Tudor Toilets

Toilets were called 'Privies' and were not very private at all. They were often just a piece of wood over a bowl or a hole in the ground.

People would wipe their bottoms with leaves or moss and the wealthier people used soft lamb's wool.

In palaces and castles, which had a moat, the lords and ladies would retire to a toilet set into a cupboard in the wall called a garderobe. Here the waste would drop down a shaft into the moat below.

Answer 2

The poorer people in Tudor times would have used a pot, sometimes incorporated into a chair like the modern commode. The pots would often be emptied into the streets, which often had a gutter running down the middle of the street. Tudor castles had rooms built with a chute or hole in the wall dropping down into a moat or a cess pit.

Tudor kings had basic bathrooms with copper baths, with hot and cold water taps, but the servants would still have to empty the baths.

Answer 3

They called them a jakes.

Answer 4

In exactly the same way as you do.