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LiDAR map of Kirkby Ireleth
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Kirkby Ireleth, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 18 recorded places here: 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 7 m and 261 m above sea level; its highest point is about 334 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns.
Kirkby Ireleth 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 Kirkby Ireleth, 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 Kirkby Ireleth. 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 Kirkby Ireleth. 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 Kirkby Ireleth 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 18 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
- 35.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 18
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 7–261 m above sea level; highest 334 m
- ONS code
- E04002620
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cairn and ring mound on Long Moor, W of Gill House BeckScheduled monument
- Two ring cairns on Gawthwaite MoorScheduled monument
- Prehistoric hut circle settlements, enclosure, cairnfields, funerary cairns, a dispersed medieval settlement, field system and kilns on Heathwaite FellScheduled monument
- Conscientious Objectors’ Stone, 140m south east of Green Moor farmhouseScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Kirkby Hall
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Ashlack Hall and Outbuildings
- Garden Wall to West and South
- Railway Footbridge at Kirkby in Furness Station
Other recorded places
- St John the Evangelist's Church, WoodlandWikidata place
- Burlington Slate QuarriesWikidata place
- Kirkby MoorWikidata place
- BurneyWikidata place
- Kirkby-in-FurnessWikidata place
- SoutergateWikidata place
- WoodlandWikidata place
- Kirkby-in-FurnessWikidata place
- BeanthwaiteWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Swinside7.8 km north-west
- Millom Castle8.1 km south-west
- Hodbarrow Beacon9.2 km south-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.