LiDAR map of Barrow
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Barrow, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 221 recorded places here: 96 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 74 listed buildings, 48 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 registered parks and gardens, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 5 m and 54 m above sea level; its highest point is about 95 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 bridge.
Barrow 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 Barrow, 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 Barrow. 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 Barrow. 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 96 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Barrow 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 (96 features in the parish) and the 221 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
- 45.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 221
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–54 m above sea level; highest 95 m
- ONS code
- E04013220
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Barrow Municipal CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Bow Bridge medieval multi-span bridgeScheduled monument
- Barrow ParkRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Piel Castle
- Rampside Hall
- Furness Abbey Wall
- Furness Abbey
- Abbey House Hotel
- Ormsgill Farmhouse
- Walney Lighthouse with Two Attached Cottages
- Gateway
- West Gate to Furness Abbey, Remains
- Church of St James
- Capella Extra Portas
- Town Hall
- Ramsden Hall
- Numbers 10-14 Devonshire Buildings
- Furness Abbey Cottage
- Numbers 1-9 Devonshire Buildings, Island Road
- Tower House
- Watch Tower
- Park House Farmhouse
- Sloop Street Tenements
- Steamer Street Tenements
- Graving Dock
- Hotel Majestic
- The Lord Ramsden Public House
- Statue of Sir James Ramsden
- Harbour Hotel
- Statue of Lord Frederick Cavendish at Junction
- Bridge Over Mill Beck
- Presbytery to Church of St Mary of Furness
- Church of St John
and 44 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Bow Bridge2.5 km north-east
- Dalton Castle4.9 km north
- Gleaston Castle5.4 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.