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LiDAR map of Burgh by Sands
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Burgh by Sands, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 42 recorded places here: 10 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 9 ancient places (Pleiades), 8 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 33 m above sea level; its highest point is about 49 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 enclosures and other earthworks, 1 Roman site and 1 field system.
Burgh by Sands 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 Burgh by Sands, 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 Burgh by Sands. 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 Burgh by Sands. 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 8 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Burgh by Sands 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 (8 features in the parish) and the 42 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
- 23.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 42
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–33 m above sea level; highest 49 m
- ONS code
- E04002450
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of road at Burgh Head, and boundary south of Ash Tree Square, Burgh-by-Sands in wall miles 71 and 72Scheduled monument
- Roman fort and watch tower, 800m SSW of AmberfieldScheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Burgh by Sands and Burgh Marsh in wall miles 72 and 73Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall Vallum between West End, Burgh by Sands and the eastern boundary of DykesfieldScheduled monument
- Settlement and field system N of MoorhouseScheduled monument
- Settlement enclosures, 800m north west of FarhillScheduled monument
- Milecastle 73 (Dykesfield)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 73AAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 73BAncient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 74 (Burgh Marsh)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 72B (Rindle Hill)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 72AAncient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 72 (Fauld Farm)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 71BAncient place (Pleiades)
- AballavaAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Michael
- Burgh by Sands War Memorial
- Dykesfield Bridge
- King Edward i Monument
- Lamonby Farmhouse
- Boustead Hill Bridge
- Moorhouse Hall
- West Green Bridge
- Canal Aqueduct
- Burial Ground Wall
Other recorded places
- Milecastle 72Wikidata place
- Milecastle 74Wikidata place
- Milecastle 73Wikidata place
- Thurstonfield LoughWikidata place
- Burgh-by-Sands railway stationWikidata place
- North EndWikidata place
- Boustead HillWikidata place
- LongburghWikidata place
- MoorhouseWikidata place
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DITCHED ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- FIRING RANGEAerial survey feature
- DITCHED ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- TEMPORARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- DITCHED ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Carlisle Castle8.9 km east
- Milefortlet 110.7 km west
- Milefortlet 312.6 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.