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LiDAR map of Wolsingham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wolsingham, a parish in County Durham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 52 recorded places here: 34 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 148 m and 348 m above sea level; its highest point is about 436 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 moated site and 1 medieval settlement.
Wolsingham 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 Wolsingham, 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 Wolsingham. 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 Wolsingham. 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 6 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Wolsingham 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 (6 features in the parish) and the 52 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
- 85.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 52
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 148–348 m above sea level; highest 436 m
- ONS code
- E04010719
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Harperley Working Camp, World War II prisoner of war camp at CraigsideScheduled monument
- Bradley Hall fortified house and underground passages, moated site, pillow mound and fishpondsScheduled monument
- Medieval settlementScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Thornley War Memorial
- Thornley Hall
- Coves House Farmhouse
- Former Primitive Methodist Chapel
- Gazebo/dovecote in Garden of Bishop Oak
- Whitfield House
- Low Harperley Farmhouse
- Boundary Stone
- Former Railway Station
- Church of St Mary and St Stephen
- Wall Enclosing Yard of Church of St Mary and St
- Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
- Former Chapel and Buildings
- Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Holy Well
- Former Smithy
- South Building of Weardale Steel
- Attwood Tomb
- Aisley Tomb
- Group of 5 Graves Immediately
- Mackintosh Tomb
- Black Bull Public House
- School South
- Webb Tomb
- Collins Tomb
- Thompson Tomb
- Bradley Burn Bridge
- Milestone in Front of Number 12
- Bridge Over Thornhope Beck
and 4 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Backstone Bank and Baal Hill WoodsWikidata place
- Tunstall ReservoirWikidata place
- High Stoop railway stationWikidata place
- Harperley railway stationWikidata place
- WeardaleWikidata place
- WolsinghamWikidata place
- CraigsideWikidata place
- InkermanWikidata place
- Kingfisher Halt railway stationWikidata place
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- UNDERGROUND MONITORING POSTAerial survey feature
- OPEN CAST MINEAerial survey feature
- COLLIERYAerial survey feature
- COLLIERYAerial survey feature
- MOATAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Harperley POW Camp 935.3 km south-east
- Longovicium11.7 km north-east
- Binchester Roman Fort14.5 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Stanhope
- Witton-le-Wear
- Hedleyhope
- County Durham
- Wolsingham Park Moor lands cmn to Stanhope, Tow Law and Wolsingham
- Muggleswick
- Hamsterley
- South Bedburn
- Lands common to Hamsterley, Lynesack and Softley and South Bedburn
- Tow Law
- Satley
- Lanchester
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.