LiDAR map of Wigton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wigton, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 21 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 21 m and 46 m above sea level; its highest point is about 59 m.
Wigton 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 Wigton, 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 Wigton. 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 Wigton. 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 Wigton 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 21 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
- 4.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 21
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 21–46 m above sea level; highest 59 m
- ONS code
- E04002436
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Wigton Hall
- Old Lane Mill
- Wigton, Woodside and Oulton War Memorial
- United Reform Church
- Lion and Lamb Hotel
- Thomlinson Junior School
- Midland Bank
- Border Insurance Advisory Service
- Kings Arms Walter Willsons
- Wigton Pump
- Library Block, Nelson Thomlinson School
- Kildare Hotel
- Wigton Labour Club
- Moore Memorial Fountain
- Penrice Drapers
- Hare and Hounds and No 8
- Friends Meeting House
- Milestone at Ngr
Other recorded places
- Wigton SchoolWikidata place
- Brookfield railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Holmcultram Abbey8.0 km west
- Ireby Old Church9.4 km south
- Milefortlet 513.1 km north-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.