Editing Spring line settlement (section)

==Some examples in England==
* To the north and south of the [[Howardian Hills]] in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]].<ref>Humphery-Smith (2003) Map 40</ref>
* To the west and east of the ridge that extends south from [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire|Lincoln]] and on top of which is the [[Roman road]] [[Ermine Street]]. The western line (which includes [[Boothby Graffoe]] and [[Navenby]]) is close under the escarpment; the eastern line (which includes [[Metheringham]]) is as much as {{convert|6|mi|0}} away from the crest of the ridge.<ref>Humphery-Smith (2003) Map 21B</ref>
* To the south of [[London]] and difficult to identify among the continuous housing development of later centuries, there are: [[Ewell]] (a derivative of the [[Old English]] ''Et Welle''), [[Cheam]], [[Sutton, London|Sutton]], [[Carshalton]], [[Wallington, London|Wallington]], [[Beddington]], [[Waddon]], [[Croydon]], [[Addiscombe]], [[Elmers End]] and [[Beckenham]].<ref>Humphery-Smith (2003) Map 33</ref> Road and place names to the north of the line provide evidence that that area was relatively uninhabited: Cheam [[common land|Common]], [[Sutton Common]], [[Thornton Heath]], and [[South Norwood|Norwood]] (a derivative of ''North Wood'').
* Below the northern [[escarpment]] of the [[South Downs]] are villages such as [[Edburton]], [[Fulking]] and [[Poynings]].<ref>Humphery-Smith (2003) Map 34</ref>
* In the [[Vale of the White Horse]] (now in [[Oxfordshire]], formerly in [[Berkshire]]), villages such as [[East Ginge]], West Ginge, [[Letcombe Bassett]], [[Childrey]] and [[Woolstone, Oxfordshire|Woolstone]] are at the top of wooded valleys below [[the Ridgeway]] on the north-facing scarp slope.{{cn|date=October 2024}}
* In [[East Anglia]], spring line settlements such as [[Burwell, Cambridgeshire]], [[Swaffham Prior]] and [[Cherry Hinton]] mark the fen edge and are close to the probable Lower [[Icknield Way]].{{cn|date=October 2024}}
* In [[Somerset]], at the foot of the southwestern escarpment of the largely limestone [[Mendip Hills]], the settlements of [[Draycott, Somerset|Draycott]], [[Rodney Stoke]], [[Westbury-sub-Mendip]], [[Easton, Somerset|Easton]], [[Wookey Hole]], and [[Wells, Somerset|Wells]].  At the northern foot of the Mendip Hills, [[Burrington, Somerset|Burrington]], [[Blagdon]], [[Ubley]], [[Compton Martin]], [[West Harptree]], [[East Harptree]], and [[Chewton Mendip]].  By contrast there are very few settlements on Mendip itself, with only [[Priddy]] within the Mendip Hills [[National Landscape]].{{cn|date=October 2024}}