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LiDAR map of Urswick
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Urswick, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 22 recorded places here: 9 scheduled monuments, 6 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 30 m and 87 m above sea level; its highest point is about 136 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 3 Roman sites, 1 henge or standing stone and 1 long barrow or chambered tomb.
Urswick 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 Urswick, 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 Urswick. 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 Urswick. 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 3 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Urswick 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 (3 features in the parish) and the 22 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
- 16.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 22
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 30–87 m above sea level; highest 136 m
- ONS code
- E04002658
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Skelmore HeadsAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Concentric stone circle on Birkrigg CommonScheduled monument
- Round cairn on Birkrigg Common, 520m north west of High Sunbrick FarmScheduled monument
- Prehistoric enclosed hut circle settlement, an associated enclosure, and a bowl barrow NNE of Appleby SlackScheduled monument
- Romano-British enclosed hut circle settlement 660m south east of Holme BankScheduled monument
- Long barrow north of Skelmore Heads, 300m NE of Woodside FarmScheduled monument
- Round cairn on Appleby HillScheduled monument
- Round cairn on Birkrigg Common, 600m north west of High Sunbrick FarmScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead on Little Urswick CragsScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead east of Little Urswick CragsScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary and St Michael
- Stainton Old Hall
- Gale Monument
- Bardsea Monument in Grounds of Ulverston Golf Club
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Sundial
Other recorded places
- Stainton with AdgarleyWikidata place
- UrswickWikidata place
- BardseaWikidata place
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND CAIRNAerial survey feature
- STONE CIRCLEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Gleaston Castle1.9 km south
- Dalton Castle3.0 km west
- Bow Bridge3.6 km south-west
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.