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LiDAR map of Rochester
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rochester, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 175 recorded places here: 90 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 37 scheduled monuments, 20 listed buildings, 15 Roman inscriptions, 9 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 216 m and 464 m above sea level; its highest point is about 579 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 18 Roman sites, 9 barrows or cairns, 2 long barrows or chambered tombs and 2 crosses.
Rochester 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 Rochester, 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 Rochester. 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 Rochester. 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 90 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Rochester 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 (90 features in the parish) and the 175 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
- 179.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 175
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 216–464 m above sea level; highest 579 m
- ONS code
- E04010854
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bremenium Roman station, High RochesterScheduled monument
- Blakehope Roman fort and Roman temporary campScheduled monument
- Ridlees round cairn, 640m north east of Hanging CragScheduled monument
- Long cairn 360m south west of Dour HillScheduled monument
- Bellshiel Law long cairnScheduled monument
- Cairn group 330m south-east of Bellshiel LawScheduled monument
- Roman camp and prehistoric round cairn 700m north-east of Bellshiel BridgeScheduled monument
- Round cairn, 800m east of Mally's CragScheduled monument
- Round cairn, 240m east of Ravens PikeScheduled monument
- The Three Kings four poster stone circle and round cairnScheduled monument
- Round cairn on western slopes of Dour Hill, 250m south west of summitScheduled monument
- Round cairn on Ravens PikeScheduled monument
- Round cairn 230m west of Ridlees CairnScheduled monument
- Bagraw Roman camp and section of Roman road, 463m NNW of BagrawScheduled monument
- Roman camp, 1.05km north of FeatherwoodScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 330m west of Rattenraw FarmScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 350m south of Rattenraw FarmScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 570m west of WoolawScheduled monument
- Romano-British enclosed settlement 400m south east of WoolawScheduled monument
- Roman temporary camp at DarguesScheduled monument
- Petty Knowes Roman Cemetery and Length of Dere Street Roman Road, RochesterScheduled monument
- Roman camp, 250m north-west of SilloansScheduled monument
- Two Roman camps, 550m east of Burdhopecrag HallScheduled monument
- Roman camp, 400m SSW of Sills FarmScheduled monument
- Two Romano-British settlements, two stone hut circles, field system and associated cord rig cultivation, 650m west of Nether HousesScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement, field system and cord rig cultivation 390m north east of Yatesfield HillScheduled monument
- Roman Camp, 750m SSW of Sills FarmScheduled monument
- World War I practice trenches 740m north west of Short FellScheduled monument
- Observation post 820m SSE of Hanging CragScheduled monument
- Observation post 240m west of Ridlees CairnScheduled monument
- Blockhouse immediately west of FeatherwoodScheduled monument
- Farm blast shelter at FeatherwoodScheduled monument
- Middle Golden Pot medieval wayside crossScheduled monument
- Medieval wayside cross, 200m NNW of BrownriggScheduled monument
- Unenclosed hut circle settlement 250m west of WoolawScheduled monument
- Romano-British enclosed settlement and medieval settlement 300m south of BurdhopeScheduled monument
- Evistones medieval settlement, field system and three bastlesScheduled monument
- DarguesAncient place (Pleiades)
- Birdhope CampsAncient place (Pleiades)
- BremeniumAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Rochester War Memorial
- Milestone at Byrness
- Church of St Francis of Assisi
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Birdhopecraig United Reformed Church
- Dam, Overflow Bridge and Valve House at Catcleugh
- The Redesdale Arms
- Hedley and Robson Tombs
- Garden Wall
- Milestone North
- Milestone South
- Compensation Arch and Basin at Catcleugh Reservoir
- Milestone by Bennetsfield Farm
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Featherwood Roman CampsWikidata place
- Whitelee MoorWikidata place
- Cottonshope Head QuarryWikidata place
- Catcleugh ReservoirWikidata place
- River RedeWikidata place
- The Fleet CrossRecorded place
- CottonshopeburnfootWikidata place
- RochesterWikidata place
- RamshopeWikidata place
- High RochesterRoman inscription
- Petty Knowes Roman Cemetery and Length of DereWikidata place
- High RochesterRoman inscription
- High RochesterRoman inscription
- High RochesterRoman inscription
- High RochesterRoman inscription
- High RochesterRoman inscription
- High RochesterRoman inscription
- High RochesterRoman inscription
- High RochesterRoman inscription
- High RochesterRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Bremenium4.7 km south-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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.