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LiDAR map of Waterhead
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Waterhead, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 115 recorded places here: 56 Roman inscriptions, 22 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 18 ancient places (Pleiades), 13 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 129 m and 194 m above sea level; its highest point is about 217 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 Roman sites and 1 castle.
Waterhead 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 Waterhead, 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 Waterhead. 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 Waterhead. 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 22 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Waterhead 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 (22 features in the parish) and the 115 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
- 18.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 115
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 129–194 m above sea level; highest 217 m
- ONS code
- E04002478
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52Scheduled monument
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's WallScheduled monument
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain CastleScheduled monument
- Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51Scheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch HillScheduled monument
- Coombe Crag Roman QuarryAncient place (Pleiades)
- BannaAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 49B (Turf Wall)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 49B (Birdoswald)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 50A (High House)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 49 (Harrow's Scar)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 51A (Piper Syke)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 50 (Turf Wall) (High House)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 49AAncient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 50 (High House)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 50B (Turf Wall)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 51 (Wall Bowers)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 52A (Banks East)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 50A (Turf Wall)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Pike Hill Signal TowerAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 51B (Lea Hill)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 52 (Bankshead)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 50B (Appletree)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Other recorded places
- Milecastle 49Wikidata place
- Milecastle 50TWWikidata place
- Milecastle 50Wikidata place
- Milecastle 51Wikidata place
- Popping StoneWikidata place
- Pike Hill Signal TowerWikidata place
- Leahill TurretWikidata place
- BannaWikidata place
- St. Mary Magdalene's Church, GilslandWikidata place
- Gilsland SpaWikidata place
- borders of the Roman EmpireWikidata place
- WaterheadWikidata place
- BirdoswaldWikidata place
- Hadrian's WallRoman inscription
- BirdoswaldRoman inscription
- BirdoswaldRoman inscription
- BirdoswaldRoman inscription
- BirdoswaldRoman inscription
- BirdoswaldRoman inscription
- BirdoswaldRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Triermain Castle1.8 km west
- Thirlwall Castle4.7 km east
- Lanercost Priory6.6 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.
- 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.