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LiDAR map of Rievaulx
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rievaulx, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 57 recorded places here: 34 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 13 listed buildings, 7 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 97 m and 265 m above sea level; its highest point is about 329 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 enclosures and other earthworks, 2 monastic sites, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 medieval settlement.
Rievaulx 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 Rievaulx, 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 Rievaulx. 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 Rievaulx. 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 34 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Rievaulx 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 (34 features in the parish) and the 57 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
- 21.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 57
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 97–265 m above sea level; highest 329 m
- ONS code
- E04007618
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Rievaulx TerraceRegistered park or garden
- Dyke at the north eastern end of Stone Bridge Howl, 760m north west of Court House FarmScheduled monument
- Round barrow, 50m south of Sour Leys FarmScheduled monument
- Linear boundary earthwork 370m east of Oscar Park FarmScheduled monument
- Griff medieval settlement and Cistercian monastic grange, 400m west of Griff FarmScheduled monument
- Griff Cross, wayside cross 800m NNE of Griff Farm on the road from Helmsley to RievaulxScheduled monument
- Rievaulx Abbey Cistercian monastery: inner and outer precinct, water-management works, agricultural features, enclosures and ancillary buildingsScheduled monument
- Newlass Cistercian monastic grange adjacent to New Leys FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Rievaulx Abbey
- Ionic Temple
- Doric Temple
- Southern Stable Block
- Rievaulx Mill and Cartshed
- Abbots Well
- Church of St Mary
- Rievaulx Bridge
- Mill House
- Mill Bridge
- Milestone East South
- Milestone Three Quarters of a Mile
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Rye DaleWikidata place
- Ryedale WindypitsWikidata place
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- MILITARY ROADAerial survey feature
- TRAMWAYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- WATER CHANNELAerial survey feature
- GARDENAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Rievaulx Abbey1.7 km south-west
- Helmsley Castle3.9 km south-east
- Helmsley Bridge4.2 km south-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.