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LiDAR map of Horsley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Horsley, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 28 recorded places here: 8 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 5 scheduled monuments, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 listed buildings, 4 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 79 m and 133 m above sea level; its highest point is about 153 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 castles, 1 settlement and 1 medieval settlement.
Horsley 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 Horsley, 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 Horsley. 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 Horsley. 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 8 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Horsley 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 (8 features in the parish) and the 28 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
- 15.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 28
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 79–133 m above sea level; highest 153 m
- ONS code
- E04010810
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Horsley WoodAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Welton tower houseScheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B6309 and the B6321 in wall miles 16, 17 and 18Scheduled monument
- Nafferton castle and tower house, 750m east of Nafferton FarmScheduled monument
- Defended settlement and field boundary on Horsley HillScheduled monument
- Welton medieval settlement, open field system and fishpondsScheduled monument
- Milecastle 15 (Whitchester)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 17BAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 17A (Welton East)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 17 (Welton)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Milecastle 15Wikidata place
- Milecastle 17Wikidata place
- Whittle Dene reservoirsWikidata place
- North East EnglandWikidata place
- HorsleyWikidata place
- Hadrian's Wall: Milecastle 17 (Welton)Roman inscription
- DITCHED ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- TRAMWAYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SHAFTAerial survey feature
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- TRAMWAYAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BAILEYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Prudhoe Castle3.7 km south-east
- Aydon Castle7.3 km west
- Hunnum7.9 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.