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LiDAR map of Matterdale
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Matterdale, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 27 recorded places here: 16 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 172 m and 567 m above sea level; its highest point is about 856 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn.
Matterdale 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 Matterdale, 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 Matterdale. 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 Matterdale. 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 Matterdale 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 27 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
- 68.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 27
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 172–567 m above sea level; highest 856 m
- ONS code
- E04002554
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Maiden CastleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Bowl barrow on summit of Little Mell FellScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Watermillock House
- Matterdale Church
- Lyulph's Tower
- Marshall Monument
- Hudson Monument
- Rumney Monument
- Dowthwiate Monument
- Dawson Monument
- Pollard Monument
- Church of All Saints
- Leeming House Hotel
- Sparket Mill
- Hudson Monument
- Outward Bound School
- Sundial
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Gowbarrow ParkWikidata place
- Aira ForceWikidata place
- Gowbarrow FellWikidata place
- Hart SideWikidata place
- Highgate Platform railway stationWikidata place
- Mosedale ViaductWikidata place
- Ulcat RowWikidata place
- DockrayWikidata place
- TroutbeckWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Castlerigg stone circle11.3 km west
- Mayburgh Henge12.8 km north-east
- King Arthur's Round Table13.1 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Patterdale
- St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn
- Threlkeld
- Hutton
- Mungrisdale
- Martindale
- Barton and Pooley Bridge
- Dacre
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.