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LiDAR map of Hepple
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Hepple, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 22 recorded places here: 11 scheduled monuments, 4 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 121 m and 344 m above sea level; its highest point is about 440 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 castles, 2 barrows or cairns, 1 hillfort and 1 Roman site.
Hepple 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 Hepple, 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 Hepple. 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 Hepple. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Hepple 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 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
- 61.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 22
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 121–344 m above sea level; highest 440 m
- ONS code
- E04010801
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hepple TowerScheduled monument
- Soldiers FoldAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Hetchester CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Witchy NeukAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Oval mound 1/4 mile (400m) NW of Caistron FarmScheduled monument
- Witchy Neuk univallate hillfort and linear boundary 600m west of Hepple Whitefield FarmScheduled monument
- Cairnfield on Swindon Hill, 800m west of Hepple Whitefield FarmScheduled monument
- Pattenshiel Knowe Iron Age/Romano-British farmsteadScheduled monument
- Cairn on Whitefield Shank, 1100m SSW of Hepple Whitefield FarmScheduled monument
- Bastle, 500m west of High ShawScheduled monument
- Bastle at Craig FarmScheduled monument
- Bastle at The Raw FarmScheduled monument
- Deserted medieval village including bastle at Ironhouse, 750m west of High ShawScheduled monument
Listed buildings
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- High CoveWikidata place
- Tosson HillWikidata place
- Reiver's WayWikidata place
- HeppleWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Elsdon Castle5.6 km south
- Biddlestone RC Chapel9.6 km north
- Bremenium9.7 km 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.