LiDAR map of Walton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Walton, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 49 recorded places here: 26 Roman inscriptions, 7 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 ancient places (Pleiades), 5 scheduled monuments, 3 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 43 m and 108 m above sea level; its highest point is about 127 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 Roman sites and 1 castle.
Walton 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 Walton, 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 Walton. 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 Walton. 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 7 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Walton 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 (7 features in the parish) and the 49 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
- 15.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 49
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 43–108 m above sea level; highest 127 m
- ONS code
- E04002477
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56Scheduled monument
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the westScheduled monument
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55Scheduled monument
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56Scheduled monument
- *CamboglannaAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 56B (Cambeck)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 55A (Dovecote)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 56A (Sandyside)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 55B (Townhead Croft)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 56 (Walton)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Milecastle 56Wikidata place
- WaltonWikidata place
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
- CastlesteadsRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Lanercost Priory4.3 km south-east
- Irthington Castle4.8 km south-west
- Triermain Castle7.7 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.