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LiDAR map of Levisham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Levisham, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 36 recorded places here: 23 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns and 1 field system.
Levisham 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 Levisham, 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 Levisham. 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 Levisham. 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 23 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Levisham 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 (23 features in the parish) and the 36 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
- 12.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 36
- ONS code
- E04007600
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round barrow 660m south west of Glebe FarmScheduled monument
- Round barrow 400m north of Levisham HallScheduled monument
- Round barrow 780m north of Grove HouseScheduled monument
- Three round barrows on Ness Head 750m east of Howlgate FarmScheduled monument
- Three round barrows 130m north west of Seavy PondScheduled monument
- Three medieval pillow mounds 900m north of Grove HouseScheduled monument
- Extensive prehistoric and medieval remains on Levisham MoorScheduled monument
- Prehistoric field system, medieval rabbit warren and post-medieval mining test pits on Rhumbard SnoutScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Hole of HorcumWikidata place
- Levisham railway stationWikidata place
- LevishamWikidata place
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- TERRACED GROUNDAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DYKE (DEFENCE)Aerial survey feature
- ORDNANCE STOREAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- IRONSTONE PITAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cawthorne Camp5.2 km south-west
- Pickering Castle8.4 km south-west
- Market Cross9.2 km south
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.
- 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.