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Site factors are the wider environmental and human features of the landscape which influenced the locations of our settlements. **Wet-point site** - this is located near a fresh source of water such as a river or a spring from the base of a chalk escarpment Example: Back Barrow in Cumbria

**Dry-point site** - is useful in particularly wet areas. Settlements are usually located on top of a small hill in marshy areas like Ely in Norfolk

**Resources** - building materials like stone and wood; fuel supply for heating and cooking (wood); food supplies animals and plants

**Defence** - against surrounding tribes this was sometimes necessary. Good defensive sites may have been within a river meander, with the river giving protection on three sides like Durham. Sometimes settlements were built on hills or steep slopes to give commanding views like Edinburgh

 **Shelter** - in Britain it is an advantage to be sheltered from the strong prevailing south-westerly and cold northerly winds  **Aspect** - the direction a face slopes. A south facing slope will be warmer as this faces the sun. || **Nodal Points** - this is where several routes meet to create a route centre like York Ga**p towns** - these are settlements which developed in the flat land between two higher pieces of land 