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LiDAR map of Shildon
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Shildon, a parish in County Durham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 40 recorded places here: 22 listed buildings, 12 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 112 m and 156 m above sea level; its highest point is about 217 m.
Shildon 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 Shildon, 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 Shildon. 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 Shildon. 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 12 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Shildon 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 (12 features in the parish) and the 40 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
- 10.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 40
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 112–156 m above sea level; highest 217 m
- ONS code
- E04010691
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Stockton & Darlington Railway: Brusselton InclinesScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Locomotive coaling drops
- Soho Engine Shed, originally Kilburns' warehouse
- Soho House
- New Shildon War Memorial
- Midland Bank
- War Memorial, 3.
- Church of St John
- Sudbury House
- Church of All Saints
- Number 1 Old Engine Houses
- Numbers 3 & 4 Old Engine Houses
- Monument to Timothy Hackworth
- Number 2 Old Engine Houses
- The Grey Horse Public House
- Railway Institute and Forecourt Walls
- South Portal of Shildon Railway Tunnel
- Thickley Wood railway footbridge
- Brusselton Accommodation Bridge
- Aqueduct Across Railway
- Railway lineside cabins known as Black Boy Stables
- Railway goods shed, coal drops, parcel office
- Shildon Signal Box
Other recorded places
- Shildon TunnelWikidata place
- Hackworth ParkWikidata place
- Shildon railway worksWikidata place
- LocomotionWikidata place
- ShildonWikidata place
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- COAL WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- COLLIERYAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- COACH HOUSEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Legs Cross4.2 km south-west
- Binchester Roman Fort5.4 km north
- Piercebridge Roman Fort10.5 km south
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.