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LiDAR map of Grinton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Grinton, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 19 recorded places here: 9 scheduled monuments, 7 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 218 m and 521 m above sea level; its highest point is about 563 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 enclosures and other earthworks, 3 barrows or cairns, 1 settlement and 1 henge or standing stone.
Grinton 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 Grinton, 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 Grinton. 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 Grinton. 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 Grinton 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 19 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
- North Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 33.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 19
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 218–521 m above sea level; highest 563 m
- ONS code
- E04007487
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Maiden Castle, SwaledaleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Dyke 220yds (200m) W of Dyke HouseScheduled monument
- Dyke 270yds (250m) E of Dyke HouseScheduled monument
- How Hill, Low Whita late prehistoric defended settlement siteScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow at Swale HallScheduled monument
- Ring cairn at Cogden Gill, south east of Grinton LodgeScheduled monument
- Ring cairn at Cogden Gill, 200m south of Grinton LodgeScheduled monument
- Linear earthwork at High Harker HillScheduled monument
- Embanked small stone circle at Harker Mires on Harkerside MoorScheduled monument
- Linear earthwork at Harker MiresScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Grinton Smelting Mill and Watercourse
- Blackburn Hall
- Low Whita
- Low Whita
- Church of St Andrew
- Grinton Bridge
- Scabba Wath Bridge
Other recorded places
- CrackpotWikidata place
- Grinton LodgeWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Maiden Castle2.4 km north-east
- Surrender lead smelt mill3.9 km north
- Grinton Smelt Mill4.6 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Preston-under-Scar
- Ellerton Abbey
- Marrick
- Carperby-cum-Thoresby
- Redmire
- Castle Bolton with East and West Bolton
- Melbecks
- Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh
- Askrigg
- Muker
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.