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LiDAR map of Bewcastle
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bewcastle, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 45 recorded places here: 29 scheduled monuments, 8 Roman inscriptions, 3 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 144 m and 418 m above sea level; its highest point is about 518 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns, 4 castles, 2 settlements and 1 Roman site.
Bewcastle 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 Bewcastle, 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 Bewcastle. 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 Bewcastle. 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 Bewcastle 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 45 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
- 115.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 45
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 144–418 m above sea level; highest 518 m
- ONS code
- E04002448
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castleScheduled monument
- Crew Castle bastleScheduled monument
- Low Grains bastleScheduled monument
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottageScheduled monument
- Round cairn 300m south west of UnderwoodScheduled monument
- The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald WellScheduled monument
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of AshycroftScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of NookScheduled monument
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains FarmScheduled monument
- Shiel Knowe round cairnScheduled monument
- White Lyne round cairn 60m NNW of confluence of Gate Grain and White LyneScheduled monument
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of BorderriggScheduled monument
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kilnScheduled monument
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 130m WSW of confluence with Little Hare GrainScheduled monument
- Four medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare GrainScheduled monument
- Two medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne 230m north east of confluence with little Hare GrainScheduled monument
- Unfinished high cross shaft on Long Bar 580m north east of Todcrag LochScheduled monument
- Horse Head medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 50m west of confluence of Gosling Sike and Horsehead GrainScheduled monument
- Stantling Loan medieval shielingScheduled monument
- Two medieval shielings 30m north west of Stantling Loan on Greyfell CommonScheduled monument
- Medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 310m north west of Stantling LoanScheduled monument
- Ten medieval shielings on north bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare GrainScheduled monument
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 410m WSW of confluence with Little Hare GrainScheduled monument
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 230m WSW of confluence with Little Hare GrainScheduled monument
- Kershopehead medieval shieling 610m north east of KershopeheadScheduled monument
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew FarmScheduled monument
- The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of AshycroftScheduled monument
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's ChurchScheduled monument
- Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne HouseScheduled monument
- Fanum CocidiAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Kershope BurnRecorded place
- Alston FormationWikidata place
- Sighty CragWikidata place
- Blackpool GateWikidata place
- BewcastleRoman inscription
- BewcastleRoman inscription
- BewcastleRoman inscription
- BewcastleRoman inscription
- BewcastleRoman inscription
- BewcastleRoman inscription
- BewcastleRoman inscription
- BewcastleRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Kielder Viaduct13.9 km north-east
- Triermain Castle14.5 km south
- Devil's Lapful Long Cairn, 1km east of Butteryhaugh Bridge14.9 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.