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LiDAR map of Loftus
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Loftus, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 69 recorded places here: 24 listed buildings, 21 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 18 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 73 m and 198 m above sea level; its highest point is about 240 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns, 1 settlement, 1 cross and 1 industrial site.
Loftus 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 Loftus, 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 Loftus. 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 Loftus. 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 21 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Loftus 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 (21 features in the parish) and the 69 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
- 41.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 69
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 73–198 m above sea level; highest 240 m
- ONS code
- E04000265
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Unenclosed hut circle settlement on Waupley Moor, 800m south west of Clay Hall FarmScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Boulby Cliffs known as the site of Rockcliff BeaconScheduled monument
- Three round barrows on Waupley Moor, 775m south west of Clay Hall FarmScheduled monument
- World War I early warning acoustic mirror 60m east of Boulby Barns FarmScheduled monument
- Cross base for standing cross in churchyard of All Saints Church, EasingtonScheduled monument
- Boulby Alum Quarries and worksScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Town Hall
- Church of St Michael
- Church of St Leonard
- Kilton Mill House
- Wall, Cross-base and Grave Cover
- Liverton Mill, Mill House and Byre
- Dalehouse Bridge.
- Three Crosses Well
- Mill Sluice in Garden of Number 5
- Barclays Bank
- Tickhill Farm House, Middle Cottage, and Tickhill
- Timm's Coffee House
- Kingdom Hall
- The Angel Inn
- White Horse Public House
- Golden Lion Hotel
- Kilton Mill
- The Bunch of Grapes Inn
- Loftus Mill and Millhouse with Mill Race
- Tea Shoppe
- Former National Westminster Bank
- Group of 5 Tombstones to Members of Parkin Family
- The Old Zetland School
- Blanchland
Nearest places with their own page
- Kilton Castle4.1 km north-west
- Duck Bridge8.1 km south
- Danby Castle8.6 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.
- 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.