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LiDAR map of Irthington
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Irthington, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 63 recorded places here: 31 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 ancient places (Pleiades), 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 listed buildings, 7 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 28 m and 87 m above sea level; its highest point is about 101 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 motte or ringwork and 1 Roman site.
Irthington 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 Irthington, 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 Irthington. 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 Irthington. 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 31 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Irthington 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 (31 features in the parish) and the 63 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
- 29.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 63
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 28–87 m above sea level; highest 101 m
- ONS code
- E04002461
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Motte, immediately south east of Nook FarmScheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57Scheduled monument
- Watchclose Roman temporary campScheduled monument
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum from A6071 to The Cottage in the case of the Wall, and to the road to Oldwall, for the vallum, in wall miles 57, 58 and 59Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60Scheduled monument
- The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60Scheduled monument
- Turret 59AAncient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 59 (Old Wall)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 60 (High Strand)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 58 (Newtown)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 57BAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 58BAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 57A (Beck)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 57 (Cambeckhill)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 58AAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Irthington war memorial
- Ruleholme Bridge
- Church of St Kentigern
- Milestone
- Milestone at National Grid Reference
- Milestone at National Grid Reference
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Milecastle 57Wikidata place
- Milecastle 58Wikidata place
- Milecastle 59Wikidata place
- Milecastle 60Wikidata place
- RAF Crosby-on-EdenWikidata place
- Cam BeckWikidata place
- Solway Aviation MuseumWikidata place
- LaversdaleWikidata place
- Hadrian's Wall: Milecastle 59 (Old Wall)Roman inscription
- MOTTEAerial survey feature
- VALLUMAerial survey feature
- VALLUMAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Irthington Castle2.0 km south-east
- Scaleby Castle3.4 km west
- Lanercost Priory7.4 km 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.
- © 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.