LiDAR map of Ulpha
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ulpha, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 12 scheduled monuments, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 149 m and 487 m above sea level; its highest point is about 832 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 11 barrows or cairns and 1 Roman site.
Ulpha 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 Ulpha, 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 Ulpha. 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 Ulpha. 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 Ulpha 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 26 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
- 53.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 149–487 m above sea level; highest 832 m
- ONS code
- E04002506
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Prehistoric round cairn on WhitfellScheduled monument
- Sike Moss prehistoric cairnfield and two ring cairns 215m north east of Woodend BridgeScheduled monument
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield 375m east of Woodend BridgeScheduled monument
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend BridgeScheduled monument
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 600m ENE of Woodend BridgeScheduled monument
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield, funerary cairn and a linear boundary 1000m ENE of Woodend BridgeScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m north east of Winds GateScheduled monument
- Prehistoric hut circle settlement and cairnfield, three medieval settlements and associated field systems, and two shielings north of CrosbythwaiteScheduled monument
- Crosby Gill prehistoric cairnfield and field system and a dispersed medieval settlement and associated lynchets 450m west of CrosbythwaiteScheduled monument
- Hesk Fell prehistoric cairnfield and funerary cairn, a linear boundary, and a dispersed medieval settlement and field system 840m west of Horseman GateScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Hesk Fell 800m north of Holehouse BridgeScheduled monument
- Roman road from Wrynose Bottom to Hardknott FordScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Castle HowWikidata place
- Wallowbarrow CragWikidata place
- Duddon Valley WoodlandsWikidata place
- Harter FellWikidata place
- Cold PikeWikidata place
- Great Worm CragWikidata place
- Green CragWikidata place
- Hesk FellWikidata place
- WoodendWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Hardknott Roman Fort4.0 km north
- Cairnfield including a prehistoric enclosure6.4 km north-west
- Coniston copper mines7.3 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.