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LiDAR map of Old Byland and Scawton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Old Byland and Scawton, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 49 recorded places here: 32 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 11 scheduled monuments, 6 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 126 m and 264 m above sea level; its highest point is about 305 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 8 barrows or cairns, 1 enclosure or other earthwork, 1 church or chapel and 1 monastic site.
Old Byland and Scawton 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 Old Byland and Scawton, 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 Old Byland and Scawton. 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 Old Byland and Scawton. 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 32 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Old Byland and Scawton 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 (32 features in the parish) and the 49 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
- 22.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 49
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 126–264 m above sea level; highest 305 m
- ONS code
- E04007613
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round barrow 600m west of Grange FarmScheduled monument
- Round barrow 350m south of Long Plain FarmScheduled monument
- Section of the Cleave Dyke system, known as the Casten Dike, 300m ENE of Hambleton InnScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Scawton Moor, 700m ENE of High LodgeScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Sproxton Moor, 410m north of Tom Smith's CrossScheduled monument
- Square barrow on Scawton Moor, adjacent to the quarry between Snip Gill Slack and Sword Rigg SlackScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Scawton Moor, 480m north east of High LodgeScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Scawton Moor, 390m north east of High LodgeScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Scawton Moor, 620m north west of High LodgeScheduled monument
- Medieval lordly residence immediately west of Church FarmScheduled monument
- Old Byland monastic grange immediately to the west and north-west of Valley View FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- PLATFORMAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- MILITARY ROADAerial survey feature
- DYKE (DEFENCE)Aerial survey feature
- CHARCOAL BURNERS SITEAerial survey feature
- CHARCOAL BURNERS SITEAerial survey feature
- CHARCOAL BURNERS SITEAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Rievaulx Abbey1.6 km east
- Helmsley Castle5.0 km east
- Helmsley Bridge5.3 km 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.