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LiDAR map of City of Durham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of City of Durham, a parish in County Durham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 191 recorded places here: 131 listed buildings, 45 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 registered battlefield. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 36 m and 98 m above sea level; its highest point is about 116 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 hillfort, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 cross.
City of Durham 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 City of Durham, 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 City of Durham. 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 City of Durham. 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 7 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See City of Durham 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 (7 features in the parish) and the 191 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
- 14.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 191
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 36–98 m above sea level; highest 116 m
- ONS code
- E04012745
Places with their own page
- /places/elvet-bridge/
- /places/framwellgate-bridge/
- /places/maiden-castle-county-durham/
- /places/kepier-hospital/
- /places/maiden-s-bower-round-cairn/
- /places/prebends-bridge/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Durham Castle and CathedralWorld Heritage Site
- Maiden Castle promontory fortScheduled monument
- Maiden's Bower round cairnScheduled monument
- Neville's CrossScheduled monument
- Battle of Neville's Cross 1346Registered battlefield
- Burn HallRegistered park or garden
- Old DurhamAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Great Gateway to Kepier Hospital
- Framwellgate Bridge
- Crook Hall
- The Castle West Range
- Castle Gatehouse, Entrance Gateway, Side Walls
- Elvet Bridge
- Great Gateway to Kepier Hospital
- Castle Wall Behind Hatfield College
- The Gatehouse
- Cosin's Library
- St Cuthbert's Society
- Bishop Cosin's Hall
- St John's College
- Kingsgate Bridge
- Prebends Bridge
- The Castle North Range
- Castle Wall Behind Nos. 26-28
- Bastion Behind No. 50 and Wall Attached
- Castle Terrace Wall Castle Wall Behind Nos 7-18
- Church of St Oswald
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Church of St Giles
- Former Exchequer Building, Now University Library
- St John's College Second Part
- Crown Court
- Castle Wall Behind Nos. 16-22 and No.22a
- St Mary Le Bow Heritage Centre
- Fram Well Head
- Durham Prison Chapel
and 101 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- County Police Communication TowerWikidata place
- Durham Light Infantry MuseumWikidata place
- Institute for Computational CosmologyWikidata place
- Durham University Department of PhysicsWikidata place
- Teikyo University of Japan in DurhamWikidata place
- University Hospital of North DurhamWikidata place
- Durham County Record OfficeWikidata place
- British Society for Middle Eastern StudiesWikidata place
- Collingwood CollegeWikidata place
- Durham High School for GirlsWikidata place
- Durham University Botanic GardenWikidata place
- Durham University Business SchoolWikidata place
- Durham University Library and CollectionsWikidata place
- Durham University Department of EngineeringWikidata place
- Grey CollegeWikidata place
- John Snow CollegeWikidata place
- Josephine Butler CollegeWikidata place
- St Aidan's CollegeWikidata place
- St Leonard's Catholic School, DurhamWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Prebends Bridge120 m south
- Framwellgate Bridge470 m north
- Elvet Bridge610 m north-east
Neighbouring parishes
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.