Spring line settlement

Some examples in England

• to the north and south of the Howardian Hills in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
• to the west and east of the ridge that stretches south from Lincoln and on top of which is the Roman road Ermine Street. The western line is close under the escarpment; the eastern line is up to away from the crest of the ridge.
• to the south of London and difficult to identify among the continuous housing development of later centuries, there are: Ewell, Cheam, Sutton, Carshalton, Wallington, Beddington, Waddon, Croydon, Addiscombe, Elmers End, and Beckenham. Road and place names to the north of the line provide evidence that that area was relatively uninhabited: Cheam Common, Sutton Common, Thornton Heath, and Norwood.
• Below the northern escarpment of the South Downs are villages such as Edburton, Fulking and Poynings.
• In the Vale of the White Horse, villages such as East Ginge, West Ginge, Letcombe Bassett, Childrey and Woolstone are at the head of wooded valleys below the Ridgeway on the north-facing scarp slope.
• In East Anglia, spring line settlements such as Burwell, Cambridgeshire, Swaffham Prior, Cherry Hinton mark the fen edge and are close to the probable Lower Icknield Way.