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LiDAR map of Askerton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Askerton, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 21 scheduled monuments, 4 listed buildings, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 120 m and 344 m above sea level; its highest point is about 407 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 barrows or cairns, 5 settlements and 2 castles.
Askerton 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 Askerton, 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 Askerton. 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 Askerton. 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 Askerton 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
- 45.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 120–344 m above sea level; highest 407 m
- ONS code
- E04002446
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains FarmScheduled monument
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of sevenScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of WoodheadScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle 740m east of WoodheadScheduled monument
- Round cairn 610m south east of High GrainsScheduled monument
- Barron's Pike bowl barrowScheduled monument
- Towerbrae round cairnScheduled monument
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate BridgeScheduled monument
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate BridgeScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of GillaleesScheduled monument
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains FarmScheduled monument
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of sevenScheduled monument
- Hazel Gill shielingScheduled monument
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost of a group of sevenScheduled monument
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of sevenScheduled monument
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby WellScheduled monument
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush FarmScheduled monument
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes CottageScheduled monument
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate BridgeScheduled monument
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount HulieScheduled monument
- Medieval shieling 800m east of WoodheadScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- AskertonWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Triermain Castle6.9 km south-east
- Lanercost Priory9.3 km south
- Thirlwall Castle11.7 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.