Winter town

The winter town is a settlement in the North, located close to Winterfell.

Season 5
Brienne and Podrick Payne take a room at an inn at the winter town as she begins to plan for a way to extract Sansa Stark from Winterfell, which is occupied by House Bolton.

In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire the winter town is formed by rows of small and neat houses built of log and undressed stone. Located at Winterfell's main gatehouse, the market square has wooden stalls for produce and goods and a well at its center. The local alehouse is the Smoking Log. The Kingsroad lies past the sprawl of castle and town, while the Wolfswood is two miles away. Hunting parties from Winterfell can avoid the winter town by taking the Hunter's Gate instead of the main gate.

Its streets are muddy during summer, when four fifths of the homes are left empty. During wintertime, however, the winter town becomes filled with northmen from throughout the region, such as clansmen from the northern mountains. Some townfolk claim that Winterfell is warmed by a dragon which sleeps below the castle.

In the novels, the Winter town is burned by the men of House Bolton when they betray the Northmen led by Ser Rodrik Cassel during the attempt to liberate Winterfell from the House Greyjoy occupation led by Theon Greyjoy.