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LiDAR map of Gateshead
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 480 recorded places here: 245 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 134 listed buildings, 86 places recorded in Wikidata, 9 scheduled monuments, 3 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Gateshead lies between about 16 m and 174 m above sea level; its highest point is about 259 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 enclosures and other earthworks, 1 Roman site, 1 cross and 1 industrial site.
Gateshead 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 Gateshead, 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 Gateshead. 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 Gateshead. 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 245 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Gateshead 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 (245 features in this area) and the 480 recorded places in this area, 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
- Tyne & Wear, England
- Area
- 119.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 480
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 16–174 m above sea level; highest 259 m
- ONS code
- E43000229
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- GibsideRegistered park or garden
- Battle of Newburn Ford 1640Registered battlefield
- Old Hollinside fortified hall house, WhickhamScheduled monument
- Washingwells Roman fort, WhickhamScheduled monument
- Enclosures near Damhead Wood, WhickhamScheduled monument
- Ditched enclosure S of North View, CoalburnsScheduled monument
- Ryton village cross 160m south east of churchScheduled monument
- Whinfield coking ovens, 850m south east of Low Spen FarmScheduled monument
- Coal mining remains at Dunston HillScheduled monument
- Winlaton Mill ironworks, south east of Winlaton Mill villageScheduled monument
- Wardley moated siteScheduled monument
- Bradley ParkRegistered park or garden
- Saltwell ParkRegistered park or garden
- Washing Wells Roman FortAncient place (Pleiades)
- Tinea (river)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Gibside
- Dunston Hill Hospital
- Church of Holy Cross
- Monument to British Liberty
- Church of St Mary
- Underhill
- Banqueting House
- The Chapel
- Church of St Mary
- Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity Centre
- Church of St John, Gateshead Fell
- North Shelter in Saltwell Park
- Clara Vale War Memorial
- Rowlands Gill War Memorial
- Church of St Chad
- South Shelter in Saltwell Park
- Axwell Park and Steps and Balustrades to South
- Church of St Helen
- Saltwell Towers
- Haddon Tomb 6.
- Stephens Hall
- Orangery
- Church of St Paul
- Axwell Park Dower House
- The Rectory
- Crow Hall
- Heworth Constitutional Club, Formerly Nether
- Bradley Hall
- Church of St Joseph and Presbytery
- Church of St George
and 104 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Felling mine disasterWikidata place
- Chopwell CollieryWikidata place
- Sheriff Hill CollieryWikidata place
- MetrocentreWikidata place
- HeworthWikidata place
- Addison and Hedgefield WoodsWikidata place
- Gateshead Leisure CentreWikidata place
- Currock HillWikidata place
- Gateshead HarriersWikidata place
- The GlasshouseWikidata place
- Gateshead International StadiumWikidata place
- Gateshead Talmudical CollegeWikidata place
- Baltic Centre for Contemporary ArtWikidata place
- Blaydon RFCWikidata place
- Derwent ParkWikidata place
- Derwenthaugh Coke WorksWikidata place
- Dunston Power StationWikidata place
- Eastwood GardensWikidata place
- Gateshead CollegeWikidata place
- Gateshead Jewish Academy for GirlsWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Washing Wells Roman Fort1.1 km south-east
- Ravensworth Castle2.9 km south-east
- Dunston staiths3.0 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- County Durham
- Hedley
- Stanley
- North Lodge
- Urpeth
- Ouston
- Lamesley
- Prudhoe
- Wylam
- Heddon-on-the-Wall
- Sunderland
- South Tyneside
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.