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LiDAR map of Shap Rural
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Shap Rural, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 39 recorded places here: 25 places recorded in Wikidata, 10 scheduled monuments, 4 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 253 m and 548 m above sea level; its highest point is about 828 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns, 3 monastic sites, 2 henges and standing stones and 1 settlement.
Shap Rural 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 Shap Rural, 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 Shap Rural. 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 Shap Rural. 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 Shap Rural 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 39 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
- 103.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 39
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 253–548 m above sea level; highest 828 m
- ONS code
- E04002569
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Selside Pike round cairnScheduled monument
- Shap large regular stone circleScheduled monument
- Gunnerkeld concentric stone circleScheduled monument
- Round cairn on White RaiseScheduled monument
- Round cairn west of White RaiseScheduled monument
- Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishpondsScheduled monument
- Hardendale medieval dispersed settlement and site of medieval monastic grangeScheduled monument
- Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap AbbeyScheduled monument
- Buck Park deerpoundScheduled monument
- Settlement SW of Naddle BridgeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Limekiln to South
- Mullender and detached barn
- Parish Crag Bridge Over Swindale Beck
- Bridge Over River Lowther
Other recorded places
- Naddle HorseshoeWikidata place
- Crookdale HorseshoeWikidata place
- Wet Sleddale MeadowsWikidata place
- Naddle ForestWikidata place
- Swindale MeadowsWikidata place
- Haweswater ReservoirWikidata place
- Mosedale BeckWikidata place
- Mosedale BeckWikidata place
- Shap SummitWikidata place
- River LowtherWikidata place
- Mardale Ill BellWikidata place
- Wet Sleddale ReservoirWikidata place
- Selside PikeWikidata place
- Wasdale HorseshoeWikidata place
- Wet Sleddale HorseshoeWikidata place
- Blea WaterWikidata place
- Sleddale HallWikidata place
- Westmorland and FurnessWikidata place
- MardaleWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Shap Abbey5.8 km north-east
- Gamelands stone circle14.1 km east
- Castle Folds Romano-British defended stone hut circle14.9 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Patterdale
- Selside and Fawcett Forest
- Orton
- Crosby Ravensworth
- Shap
- Little Strickland
- Newby
- Lowther
- Longsleddale
- Kentmere
- Bampton
- Martindale
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.