springhead

plural springheads

1. The source of a natural spring.

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   But now we had reached our opening ground, the boy with the pony and the second brace of dogs was ordered to the rear, with instructions to meet us by the side of a certain gray rock, and spring-head, on the northern edge of Kettletang, a huge, bluff-headed hill, overtopping all his neighbors, at noon, when we should be there to refresh the inner man, and take up the fresh dogs for the afternoon.

   1882, Henry William Herbert, “The Yorkshire Moors”, in David Wright Judd, editor, Life and Writings of Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert.), page 35

2. figurativelyA source.
3. A head or end-piece for a carriage-spring.

1. A suburban area in Saddleworth parish, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9604).
2. A location, the source of the Ebbsfleet River, on the boundary of Dartford borough and Gravesham borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6172).