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Besides Bree itself, there was Staddle on the other side of the hill, Combe in a deep valley a little further eastward, and Archet on the edge of the Chetwood. Lying round Bree-hill and the villages was a small country of fields and tamed woodland only a few miles broad. [...]
To their left they could see some of the houses and hobbit-holes of Staddle on the gentler south-eastern slopes of the hill
- The Fellowship of the Ring (Book 1), Chapter 9
Located on the gentler south-eastern slopes of Bree-hill, Staddle is one of the three smaller villages surrounding Bree. Exclusively inhabited by Hobbits, it is the only known settlement of this kind outside of the Shire at the end of the Third Age.
The village houses a branch of the Underhill family who occupy a larger smial at the at the village's southern end. The Hobbits of Staddle are also known for the pipe-weed they grow on the southern slopes of Bree-hill.
