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LiDAR map of Whicham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Whicham, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 42 recorded places here: 26 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 11 m and 404 m above sea level; its highest point is about 600 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 henges and standing stones, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 field system.
Whicham 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 Whicham, 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 Whicham. 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 Whicham. 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 26 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Whicham 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 (26 features in the parish) and the 42 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
- 43.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 42
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 11–404 m above sea level; highest 600 m
- ONS code
- E04010486
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Giant's Grave standing stones, KirksantonScheduled monument
- Stone circle and funerary cairn 440m south west of Great Knott, LacraScheduled monument
- Stone circle 410m SSW of Great Knott, LacraScheduled monument
- Two stone circles, a stone avenue and a stone alignment at Great Knott, LacraScheduled monument
- Stone circle west of Great Knott, LacraScheduled monument
- Lacra Old Kirk medieval dispersed settlement and associated lynchets 800m and 830m NNE of Bankfield HouseScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Church of St Mary
- Whicham and Silecroft War Memorial
- Bankspring Former Brewery
- Limekiln Immediately to South
- Whitbeck Mill
Other recorded places
- Black CombeWikidata place
- Silecroft railway stationWikidata place
- SilecroftWikidata place
- WhichamWikidata place
- DAM\MILL PONDAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- MILL RACEAerial survey feature
- FARMSTEADAerial survey feature
- RECUMBENT STONE\STONE CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION SITEAerial survey feature
- WATER CHANNELAerial survey feature
- SCARPAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- HOLLOWAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\WALLAerial survey feature
- SCARPAerial survey feature
- LYNCHET\SCARPAerial survey feature
- BOMBING DECOY\DITCHAerial survey feature
- HOLLOWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Millom Castle5.5 km south-east
- Seaton Priory5.9 km north
- Swinside6.0 km north-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.