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LiDAR map of Kirkoswald
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Kirkoswald, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 65 recorded places here: 32 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 21 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 3 Roman inscriptions. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 124 m and 520 m above sea level; its highest point is about 664 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle, 1 bridge, 1 moated site and 1 settlement.
Kirkoswald 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 Kirkoswald, 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 Kirkoswald. 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 Kirkoswald. 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 32 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Kirkoswald 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 (32 features in the parish) 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
- 63.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 65
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 124–520 m above sea level; highest 664 m
- ONS code
- E04002546
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Kirkoswald Castle moated siteScheduled monument
- Eden BridgeScheduled monument
- Medieval moated site W of St Oswald's ChurchScheduled monument
- Haresceugh Fell medieval dispersed settlement 100m south west of Busk lime kilnScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Kirkoswald War Memorial
- The College
- Bell Tower North
- Church of St Oswald
- Ona Ash
- Demesne Farmhouse
- Nether Haresceugh
- Croglin Low Hall
- Byre
- Gatehouse
- Methodist Church
- Former Congregational Church
- Fetherston Arms Hotel
- Post Office
- Crown Hotel
- Mill House
- The Old Mill
- Village Stocks
- Black Bull
- Midland Bank
- Gatepiers
Other recorded places
- Black FellWikidata place
- KirkoswaldWikidata place
- RenwickWikidata place
- StaffieldWikidata place
- BuskWikidata place
- BritainRoman inscription
- Crindledykes FarmRoman inscription
- Crindledykes FarmRoman inscription
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MOAT\PLEASANCEAerial survey feature
- BIELDAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- COAL WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- RAKEAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- CLEARANCE CAIRN\RING CAIRNAerial survey feature
- CAIRN\CLEARANCE CAIRNAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Long Meg and Her Daughters7.1 km south-west
- Whitley Castle11.0 km north-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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.