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LiDAR map of Eskdale
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Eskdale, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 65 recorded places here: 32 places recorded in Wikidata, 26 scheduled monuments, 6 listed buildings, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 82 m and 582 m above sea level; its highest point is about 978 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 22 barrows or cairns, 2 Roman sites, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 settlement.
Eskdale 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 Eskdale, 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 Eskdale. 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 Eskdale. 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 Eskdale 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 65 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
- 75.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 65
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 82–582 m above sea level; highest 978 m
- ONS code
- E04010477
Places with their own page
- /places/hardknott-roman-fort/
- /places/cairnfield-including-a-prehistoric-enclosure-5-stone-circles-10-funerary-cairns-6-stone-banks-2-stone-walls-a-lynchet-and-a/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cairnfield including a prehistoric enclosure, 5 stone circles, 10 funerary cairns, 6 stone banks, 2 stone walls, a lynchet and a trackway on BurnmoorScheduled monument
- Hardknott Roman fort, bath-house, parade ground and tribunal, 4 Roman roads, Roman quarries and 3 cairnsScheduled monument
- Maiden Castle round cairn, BurnmoorScheduled monument
- Prehistoric enclosure north of Little Pie, BurnmoorScheduled monument
- Prehistoric enclosure, hut circle and adjacent cairnfield east of Whillan Beck, BurnmoorScheduled monument
- Prehistoric enclosure containing three hut circles and eight clearance cairns and an adjacent hut circle and cairnfield north east of Boat How, BurnmoorScheduled monument
- Prehistoric enclosure containing ten clearance cairns south west of Boat How, BurnmoorScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke WaterScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough CragScheduled monument
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High GroundScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High GroundScheduled monument
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher GateScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 800m north west and 800m north of Woodend BridgeScheduled monument
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend BridgeScheduled monument
- Great Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 710m south east of BirkerthwaiteScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield 840m east of BirkerthwaiteScheduled monument
- Smallstone Beck prehistoric cairnfield 410m east of BirkerthwaiteScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 730m ENE of BirkerthwaiteScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 290m south east of Low Birker TarnScheduled monument
- Green How West unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement 540m NNE of BirkerthwaiteScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield immediately south of BirkerthwaiteScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke WaterScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water CragScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake MossScheduled monument
- Cairnfield south of Straighthead Gill, BurnmoorScheduled monument
- Cairnfield including a funerary cairn, standing stone and three stone banks south of Eller How, BurnmoorScheduled monument
- ‘Medibogdo’Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Eskdale Corn Mill
- Church of St Catherine
- Building to South
- Eskdale War Memorial
- Bridge Over Whillan Beck to South
- Doctor Bridge
Other recorded places
- Scafell PikeWikidata place
- Milkingstead WoodWikidata place
- Miterdale Head WoodWikidata place
- St Bega's ChurchWikidata place
- Mite VillaWikidata place
- Beckfoot QuarryWikidata place
- Hardknott PassWikidata place
- Foxes TarnWikidata place
- Burnmoor TarnWikidata place
- Hard KnottWikidata place
- Whillan BeckWikidata place
- Great HowWikidata place
- Giggle AlleyWikidata place
- Blea TarnWikidata place
- Boat HowWikidata place
- Devoke WaterWikidata place
- Esk PikeWikidata place
- Ill CragWikidata place
- Illgill HeadWikidata place
- Slight SideWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Cairnfield including a prehistoric enclosure1.5 km west
- Hardknott Roman Fort3.2 km east
- Irton Cross10.0 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.