LiDAR map of Hesket
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Hesket, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 118 recorded places here: 45 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 25 listed buildings, 24 Roman inscriptions, 13 places recorded in Wikidata, 9 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 90 m and 170 m above sea level; its highest point is about 223 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 Roman sites, 2 field systems and 1 hillfort.
Hesket 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 Hesket, 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 Hesket. 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 Hesket. 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 45 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Hesket 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 (45 features in the parish) and the 118 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
- 78.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 118
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 90–170 m above sea level; highest 223 m
- ONS code
- E04002538
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Barrock FellAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Polygonal prehistoric enclosure and associated field system at Petterilbank CottagesScheduled monument
- Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy CottageScheduled monument
- Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock FellScheduled monument
- Old Penrith (Voreda) Plumpton WallScheduled monument
- Petteril Green Romano-British farmstead, associated field system and two trackwaysScheduled monument
- Roman camp 200m west of Galleygill BridgeScheduled monument
- Roman camp 200m south west of Knowe FarmScheduled monument
- Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay HallScheduled monument
- Roman camp north west of Balmer's FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Armathwaite Castle
- Calthwaite War Memorial
- Church of St Mary
- Calthwaite Hall
- High Hesket War Memorial
- Armathwaite Bridge
- Southwaite Hall and Copper Cottage
- Former Font
- Byrnes Monument
- Crook's Bridge
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Lych Gate
- Katharine Well
- The Chapel of Christ and St Mary
- Salutation Inn
- Cross Keys Hotel
- The Elephant
- Wreay Hall Mill
- Plumptonfoot Bridge
- Boundary Stone on Blackrock Bridge
- Wreay Bridge
- Middle Bridge
- Armathwaite Viaduct
- Wharton Bridge
- Boundary Stone South
Other recorded places
- Old PenrithRecorded place
- Tarn WadlingWikidata place
- Southwaite servicesWikidata place
- Armathwaite railway stationWikidata place
- Calthwaite railway stationWikidata place
- Plumpton railway stationWikidata place
- Southwaite railway stationWikidata place
- Low HesketWikidata place
- HesketWikidata place
- AiketgateWikidata place
- ArmathwaiteWikidata place
- BrockleymoorWikidata place
- CalthwaiteWikidata place
- SouthwaiteWikidata place
- Old PenrithRoman inscription
- Old PenrithRoman inscription
- Old PenrithRoman inscription
- Old PenrithRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Long Meg and Her Daughters12.0 km south-east
- Carlisle Castle14.5 km north-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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.