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LiDAR map of Capheaton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Capheaton, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 22 recorded places here: 13 listed buildings, 4 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 155 m and 216 m above sea level; its highest point is about 246 m.
Capheaton 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 Capheaton, 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 Capheaton. 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 Capheaton. 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 4 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Capheaton 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 (4 features in the parish) and the 22 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
- 22.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 22
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 155–216 m above sea level; highest 246 m
- ONS code
- E04010756
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Salter's NickAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Shaftoe CragsAtlas of Hillforts entry
- CapheatonRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Kirkheaton Manor
- East Shaftoe Hall
- West Lodge to Capheaton Hall
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Cottage and Mill Building
- Limekiln Approx 800 Yards
- Pump Approx 20 Yards
- Walled Garden Approx 100 Yards South
- Hunter Gravestone Approx 15 Yards
- Bridge Approx 30 Yards
- Milestone Approx 50 Yards South
- Capheaton Bridge Approx 400 Yards
- Folly Ruin Approx 60 Yards South
Other recorded places
- Capheaton CastleWikidata place
- KirkheatonWikidata place
- ROADAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Romano-British settlement and Iron Age defended settlement3.6 km north-east
- Standing stone and adjacent round cairn4.2 km north-east
- Defended settlement on Slate Hill5.1 km north-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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.