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LiDAR map of Bowness
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bowness, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 90 recorded places here: 24 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 20 scheduled monuments, 17 places recorded in Wikidata, 15 ancient places (Pleiades), 10 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 14 m above sea level; its highest point is about 30 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 12 Roman sites.
Bowness 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 Bowness, 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 Bowness. 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 Bowness. 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 24 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Bowness 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 (24 features in the parish) and the 90 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
- 48.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 90
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–14 m above sea level; highest 30 m
- ONS code
- E04002392
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cardurnock milefortlet (Mf 5)Scheduled monument
- The Roman fort and associated civil settlement and a medieval tower house at Bowness on Solway at the west end of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 80Scheduled monument
- Pasture House (milefortlet 3), part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coastScheduled monument
- Herd Hill (milefortlet 4) and associated parallel banks and ditches, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coastScheduled monument
- Biglands House (milefortlet 1) and associated parallel ditches, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coastScheduled monument
- Prehistoric enclosure and trackway, and a Romano-British farmstead WNW of FinglandScheduled monument
- Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall between Burgh Marsh and Westfield House in wall miles 76 and 77Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercourse 400m south east of Glasson and the access road to Glendale caravan park in wall miles 76 and 77Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the access road to Glendale caravan park and the track south of Kirkland House in wall miles 77 and 78Scheduled monument
- Herd Hill North (tower 3b), 175m north east of the sheep wash, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coastScheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth, Westfield, and the dismantled railway in wall mile 77Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled railway and the access road to Glendale caravan park in wall mile 77Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and Bowness-on-Solway in wall miles 78 and 79Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track south of Kirkland House and Bowness-on-Solway in wall miles 78 and 79Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House, Port Carlisle in wall mile 78Scheduled monument
- Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey HavensScheduled monument
- Cardurnock Marsh turret 4aScheduled monument
- Pasture House turret 3aScheduled monument
- Campfield (tower 2b) and associated parallel ditches and Roman road, 350m south west of Campfield Farm part of Roman frontier defences along Cumbrian coastScheduled monument
- Cardurnock (tower 4b) and earlier ditch system and patrol road, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coastScheduled monument
- Milecastle 80Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milefortlet 1 (Biglands House)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Pasture House Turret 3AAncient place (Pleiades)
- CongavataAncient place (Pleiades)
- MaiaAncient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 76 (Drumburgh)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 75 (Easton)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 77 (Raven Bank)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 79AAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 78A (Kirkland)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 76A (Drumburgh)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 79 (Solway House)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 79B (Jeffrey Croft)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 78 (Kirkland)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 78BAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Drumburgh Castle
- Glasson Bridge
- Church of St Michael
- Fingland Farmhouse
- Sea Lock and Wharf
- Dalvean Galegarth Harbour View Hazeldene Post
- Solway House
- Anthorn Cross
- Greenside Habberley Cottage Hope and Anchor Inn
- Canal Lock
Other recorded places
- Milefortlet 2Wikidata place
- Milecastle 75Wikidata place
- Milecastle 76Wikidata place
- Milecastle 77Wikidata place
- Milecastle 78Wikidata place
- Milecastle 79Wikidata place
- Bowness CommonWikidata place
- Solway PlainWikidata place
- Anthorn AirfieldRecorded place
- Whitrigg railway stationWikidata place
- Bowness railway stationWikidata place
- Drumburgh railway stationWikidata place
- CardurnockWikidata place
- DrumburghWikidata place
- GlassonWikidata place
- LongcroftWikidata place
- AnthornWikidata place
- Bowness-on-SolwayWikidata place
- Bowness-on-SolwayRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Milefortlet 12.7 km north-west
- Milefortlet 33.8 km west
- Milefortlet 44.8 km west
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.
- 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.