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LiDAR map of Akeld
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Akeld, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 76 recorded places here: 42 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 24 scheduled monuments, 4 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 38 m and 301 m above sea level; its highest point is about 352 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 8 settlements, 6 Roman sites, 4 barrows or cairns and 1 henge or standing stone.
Akeld 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 Akeld, 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 Akeld. 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 Akeld. 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 42 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Akeld 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 (42 features in the parish) and the 76 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
- Northumberland, England
- Area
- 15.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 76
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 38–301 m above sea level; highest 352 m
- ONS code
- E04010728
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Humbleton Hill CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Brown's LawAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Glead's Cleugh CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Monday CleughAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Battle of Homildon Hill 1402Registered battlefield
- Henge 600yds (550m) E of Akeld LodgeScheduled monument
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 120m north west of GleadscleughScheduled monument
- Defended settlement on north slope of Harehope Hill, 570m south east of High Akled CottagesScheduled monument
- Hut circle 770m south east of White GablesScheduled monument
- Round cairn 760m south east of triangulation point on Gains LawScheduled monument
- Prehistoric unenclosed hut circle settlement, field system and cairnfield 340m south west of triangulation point on Gains LawScheduled monument
- Bronze Age unenclosed hut circle settlement, field system and cairnfield, 630m south west of triangulation point on Gains LawScheduled monument
- Prehistoric hut circle on Harehope Hill, 400m south east of GleadscleughScheduled monument
- Prehistoric unenclosed hut circle settlement west of Monday Cleugh, 520m SSE of GleadscleughScheduled monument
- Prehistoric hut circle 540m south of GleadscleughScheduled monument
- Medieval chapel, 220m south east of White GablesScheduled monument
- Roman period native farmstead and associated scooped enclosures and trackways on east slope of Harehope Hill, 925m south east of High Akeld CottagesScheduled monument
- Two Roman period native settlements and associated field system on Coldberry HillScheduled monument
- Roman period native homestead 400m south of Humbleton Hill hillfortScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 630m south west of White GablesScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 900m north east of triangulation point on Gains LawScheduled monument
- Romano-British native farmstead 970m north east of triangulation point on Gains LawScheduled monument
- Cairnfield 420m south east of triangulation point on Gains LawScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead and part of an associated field system 630m south west of White GablesScheduled monument
- Green Castle ringwork 320m south west of Humbleton MillScheduled monument
- Settlement 500yds (460m) SW of White LawScheduled monument
- Unenclosed scooped settlement on the east slope of Harehope Hill, 750m south east of High Akeld CottagesScheduled monument
- Medieval shieling and enclosure 340m north west of GleadscleughScheduled monument
- Two medieval shielings on Akeld Hill, 680m WNW of GleadscleughScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Battle of Homildon HillWikidata place
- Akeld railway stationWikidata place
- AkeldWikidata place
- MOTTEAerial survey feature
- RAMPARTAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- HILLTOP ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- BURIAL CAIRNAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MILL PONDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Prehistoric enclosed settlement850 m south-east
- Stone circle8.6 km south
- Etal Castle11.0 km north
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.