LiDAR map of Asby
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Asby, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 10 scheduled monuments, 9 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 200 m and 338 m above sea level; its highest point is about 413 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns, 3 Roman sites, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 bridge.
Asby 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 Asby, 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 Asby. 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 Asby. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Asby 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 and the 26 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
- Cumbria, England
- Area
- 34.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 200–338 m above sea level; highest 413 m
- ONS code
- E04002513
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Whitley Crag, AsbyAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Castle Folds Romano-British defended stone hut circle settlement and medieval shielingScheduled monument
- Earthworks at Little AsbyScheduled monument
- Romano-British enclosed settlement on Holborn HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 60m south-west of Gaythorne HallScheduled monument
- Hollin Stump round cairnScheduled monument
- Round cairn 490m ENE of Grange HallScheduled monument
- Round cairn 450m north-east of Mazon WathScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Asby MaskScheduled monument
- Romano-British enclosed hut circle settlement 350m WNW of MaisongillScheduled monument
- Water Houses clapper bridgeScheduled monument
- Dorvantium/[Derventio] (river)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Grange Hall
- Well
- Gaythorne Hall
- Old Rectory
- St Helen's Well
- Church of St Peter
- Lych Gate
- St Helens Almshouses
- Footbridge Over Dale Beck
Other recorded places
- Pate HoleWikidata place
- Great AsbyWikidata place
- Little AsbyWikidata place
- DrybeckWikidata place
- AsbyWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Castle Folds Romano-British defended stone hut circle3.7 km south-west
- Gamelands stone circle5.2 km south-west
- Ravenstonedale Priory8.4 km south-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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.