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LiDAR map of Brandon and Byshottles
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Brandon and Byshottles, a parish in County Durham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 25 recorded places here: 16 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings, 3 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 76 m and 221 m above sea level; its highest point is about 267 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 industrial site.
Brandon and Byshottles on the LiDAR. Bare-earth LiDAR, drawn in your browser by the RVT toolbox (the Relief Visualization Toolbox, ZRC SAZU). It opens on Combined VAT; the panel holds all seventeen of its methods, each with its settings. LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Brandon and Byshottles, 1888–1913. The Ordnance Survey’s six-inch-to-the-mile map, second edition, surveyed between 1888 and 1913 and held by the National Library of Scotland, laid over today’s map with the paper colour removed, so the field boundaries, place names and antiquities the surveyors drew sit on the ground. More about this map
Roman roads near Brandon and Byshottles. The Roman road network compiled by the Roman Roads Research Association (Digital Britannia), with each road’s grade of evidence, and the Roman forts, camps and towns along them. More about this map
Aerial archaeology at Brandon and Byshottles. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. The records hold 3 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Brandon and Byshottles with everything Waystone has
The full map lays the LiDAR under the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1843–1913, the Roman road network, Historic England's aerial survey (3 features in the parish) and the 25 recorded places in the parish, with search, the sun dial, the ground probe and the cross-section tool, for all of England and Wales. Free, with nothing to install.
- County
- County Durham, England
- Area
- 33.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 25
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 76–221 m above sea level; highest 267 m
- ONS code
- E04010603
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hedleyhill Colliery coke works, 500m south west of Hazlet HouseScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- New Brancepeth War Memorial
- Littleburn Farmhouse
- Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs
- Esh Winning Miners' Memorial Hall
- Brandon War Memorial
Other recorded places
- Browney rail crashWikidata place
- River DeernessWikidata place
- Brandon Colliery railway stationWikidata place
- Lanchester Valley Railway PathWikidata place
- Ushaw Moor railway stationWikidata place
- Waterhouses railway stationWikidata place
- Brandon and ByshottlesWikidata place
- Esh WinningWikidata place
- New BrancepethWikidata place
- Langley MoorWikidata place
- Ushaw MoorWikidata place
- MeadowfieldWikidata place
- BrandonWikidata place
- BrowneyWikidata place
- WaterhousesWikidata place
- BroomparkWikidata place
- COLLIERYAerial survey feature
- COLLIERYAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Maiden's Bower round cairn5.4 km north-east
- Sunderland Bridge5.6 km south-east
- Prebends Bridge5.8 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Brancepeth
- Lands Common to Brancepeth and Brandon and Byshottles
- Hedleyhope
- County Durham
- Cornsay
- Esh
- Spennymoor
- Croxdale and Hett
- City of Durham
- Bearpark
Reading the LiDAR
The terrain model has trees, crops and buildings removed, so banks, ditches, mounds, old field systems and hollow ways show as relief. Many are modern or natural: check the records and the old Ordnance Survey map in the app. How to read a LiDAR map. Scheduled monuments are protected by law; use public rights of way.
Sources
- LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Heights: Waystone, from the same LiDAR sampled about every 12 m inside the boundary; 'most of the ground' is the middle 80% of those heights; metres above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.
- Parish boundary: Office for National Statistics, Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.