LiDAR map of Murton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Murton, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 50 recorded places here: 27 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 11 scheduled monuments, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 161 m and 649 m above sea level; its highest point is about 777 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 barrows or cairns, 2 settlements, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 industrial site.
Murton 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 Murton, 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 Murton. 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 Murton. 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 27 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Murton 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 (27 features in the parish) and the 50 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
- 53.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 50
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 161–649 m above sea level; highest 777 m
- ONS code
- E04002558
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Three round barrows on Brackenber Moor, 190m, 220m and 500m south east of Appleby Golf ClubScheduled monument
- Druidical Judgement SeatScheduled monument
- Earthwork 600ft (180m) NW of Coupland Beck FarmhouseScheduled monument
- Trundale Gill prehistoric stone hut circle settlement, regular aggregate field system, enclosures, hut circle, round cairn, and three shielingsScheduled monument
- Swindale Beck prehistoric stone hut circle settlement, associated field system, four ring cairns, a round cairn and three hut platformsScheduled monument
- Swindale Brow prehistoric hut circle settlement, two enclosures and three round cairns, 280m SE of confluence of Swindale Beck and Hilton BeckScheduled monument
- Prehistoric stone hut circle settlement, two associated enclosures and three cairns, 170m west of confluence of Swindale Beck and Hilton BeckScheduled monument
- Prehistoric stone hut circle settlement 320m south east of Dow ScarScheduled monument
- Prehistoric stone hut circle settlement 240m south east of Dow ScarScheduled monument
- Prehistoric stone hut circle settlement, an associated field system and two round cairns 700m south west of Great CarrathScheduled monument
- Scordale lead minesScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Warcop Training AreaWikidata place
- Murton FellWikidata place
- Appleby FellsWikidata place
- MurtonWikidata place
- FlakebridgeWikidata place
- HiltonWikidata place
- Murton War MemorialWikidata place
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Hartley Castle14.6 km south
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.