The settlement of Springthorpe has suffered no major or long-term documented loss of population. It has altered somewhat as a direct result of enclosure, through earlier roads east, west and south into the fields that ran between furlongs and open fields being replaced by new standard roads over those fields. But its awkward and complex street system seems to have arisen earlier through two regular morphological elements: an east-west street supporting two rows that include the church; and at right angles to the south, a north-south street with similar associated blocks of tofts - being pulled together and thereby disrupted by an irregular development focussing on a pond and green. Slight earthworks visible on early aerial; photographs result largely from abandoned 19th century properties. Parts of the common fields of Little Corringham were shared by Springthorpe, which despite being a separate medieval parish, indicates that it was once part of Corringham in some way, as the configuration of its boundaries would suggest. {1}