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LiDAR map of Stape
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Stape, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 10 recorded places here: 4 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 Roman sites, 1 cross and 1 barrow or cairn.
Stape 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 Stape, 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 Stape. 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 Stape. 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 3 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Stape 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 (3 features in the parish) and the 10 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
- 23.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 10
- ONS code
- E04007656
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Mauley Cross in Cropton Forest 580m north of Hill Top FarmScheduled monument
- Leaf Howe round barrowScheduled monument
- Two sections of Roman road on Flamborough RiggScheduled monument
- Two sections of Roman road on Pickering MoorScheduled monument
Other recorded places
- Newton DaleWikidata place
- Newton Dale Halt railway stationWikidata place
- StapeWikidata place
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cawthorne Camp6.0 km south-west
- Beggar's Bridge10.3 km north
- Pickering Castle11.0 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.