I suggest that you visit some villages in the mountains.
Small clearings mark where villages once stood.
The river supplies cities and villages with water.
Tony saw green fields and small, quiet villages.
All the villages were beautiful.
In other words, the merits, etc. of making detours are the consideration of the attitudes of the landowners whose property the line would cross, the convenience of other towns and villages, as well as connection with other railway lines.
Today, people all over the world are moving out of small villages in the country to go and live in big, noisy cities.
We came by several small villages on our way here.