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LiDAR map of St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 45 recorded places here: 29 places recorded in Wikidata, 9 scheduled monuments, 6 listed buildings, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 166 m and 668 m above sea level; its highest point is about 949 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns.
St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn 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 St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, 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 St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn. 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 St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn. 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 St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn 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 45 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
- 72.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 45
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 166–668 m above sea level; highest 949 m
- ONS code
- E04012985
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round cairn on Dunmail RaiseScheduled monument
- Castlerigg stone circle and two bowl barrowsScheduled monument
- Shoulthwaite GillAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Prehistoric stone hut circle settlement, irregular aggregate field system,five enclosures,a well,a cairnfield and trackways on St John's and Threlkeld CommonsScheduled monument
- Medieval shieling 300m north of Clough FoldScheduled monument
- Two medieval shielings 60m north of Clough FoldScheduled monument
- Two medieval shielings 25m north of Clough FoldScheduled monument
- Two medieval shielings 210m north west of Clough FoldScheduled monument
- Medieval shieling 160m north west of Clough FoldScheduled monument
- Two medieval shielings 240m north west of Clough FoldScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Wythburn Church
- Church of St John
- Straining Well and Valve House
- Kings Head Hotel
- Sosgill Bridge
- Bridge North
Other recorded places
- Bell CragsWikidata place
- Thirlmere WoodsWikidata place
- River GlenderamackinWikidata place
- Nethermost PikeWikidata place
- Armboth FellWikidata place
- Clough HeadWikidata place
- Dollywaggon PikeWikidata place
- Great DoddWikidata place
- High RiggWikidata place
- Low RiggWikidata place
- Naddle BeckWikidata place
- Raven CragWikidata place
- St. John's BeckWikidata place
- St John's in the ValeWikidata place
- Steel FellWikidata place
- Stybarrow DoddWikidata place
- Watson's DoddWikidata place
- White SideWikidata place
- Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum RailwayWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Castlerigg stone circle6.0 km north-west
- Langdale Boulders12.2 km south
- Moot mound at Fell Foot Farm, Little Langdale14.9 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.