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LiDAR map of Craster
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Craster, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 19 recorded places here: 7 listed buildings, 7 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 15 m and 49 m above sea level; its highest point is about 60 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site.
Craster 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 Craster, 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 Craster. 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 Craster. 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 7 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Craster 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 (7 features in the parish) and the 19 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
- 9.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 19
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 15–49 m above sea level; highest 60 m
- ONS code
- E04013130
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Craster HeughAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Dunstanburgh CastleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Dunstanburgh Castle: Romano-British settlement, 14th century enclosure castle and harbour, and World War II pillbox and foxholeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Dunstanburgh Castle
- Craster Tower
- Dunstan Hall
- Smokehouse, Craster
- Memorial to Norwegian Sailors
- Embleton War Memorial
- Gateway Spanning Road
Other recorded places
- Craster radar stationWikidata place
- CrasterWikidata place
- RADAR STATIONAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Dunstanburgh Castle1.7 km north-east
- Preston Tower7.8 km north-west
- Bondgate Tower9.2 km south-west
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.