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LiDAR map of Bowes
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bowes, a parish in County Durham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 47 recorded places here: 15 scheduled monuments, 12 listed buildings, 11 Roman inscriptions, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 278 m and 446 m above sea level; its highest point is about 535 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 Roman sites, 7 barrows or cairns and 1 cross.
Bowes 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 Bowes, 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 Bowes. 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 Bowes. 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 Bowes 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 47 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
- County Durham, England
- Area
- 66.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 47
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 278–446 m above sea level; highest 535 m
- ONS code
- E04010600
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Rey Cross, 670m west of Old SpitalScheduled monument
- Unenclosed hut circle settlement, two round cairns, medieval transhumance settlement and two pillow mounds, 360m south east of Rey Cross Roman campScheduled monument
- Cairnfield on the north east slope of Ravock, Bowes MoorScheduled monument
- Three cairns on Ravock, Bowes Moor, 830m north east of Ravock CastleScheduled monument
- Cairn on a low ridge on the east side of Ravock, Bowes Moor, 860m west south west of West Stoney KeldScheduled monument
- Cairn on a prominent knoll and cairnfield to its south east on Ravock, Bowes MoorScheduled monument
- Cairnfield on Ravock, 880m north west of Rovegill HouseScheduled monument
- Cairnfield on Ravock, 600m south east of Ravock Castle, Bowes MoorScheduled monument
- Roman aqueduct, prehistoric field systems, cairnfield, enclosure and round cairn on RavockScheduled monument
- Roman signal station and camp 270m north east of Bowes Moor HotelScheduled monument
- Roman signal station 190m north west of Vale House FarmScheduled monument
- Cairn on the north side of Ravock, Bowes Moor, 600m west of West Stoney KeldScheduled monument
- Rey Cross Roman temporary camp and signal station, and prehistoric stone circleScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement 740m WNW of Old SpitalScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement site to the east and south-east of East Mellwaters farmhouseScheduled monument
- ReycrossAncient place (Pleiades)
- Bowes MoorAncient place (Pleiades)
- LavatrisAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Bowes Castle
- Bowes Hall
- Bowes and District Working Men's Club
- The Ancient Unicorn Hotel
- Rutherford Bridge
- Nabb Bridge
- Limekiln
- Limekiln
- Boundary Stone to Cumbria/north Yorks
- Bridge
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- RAF Bowes MoorWikidata place
- Bowes MoorWikidata place
- God's BridgeWikidata place
- Kilmond ScarWikidata place
- Walney to Wear and Whitby Cycle RouteWikidata place
- SleightholmeWikidata place
- BowesRoman inscription
- BowesRoman inscription
- BowesRoman inscription
- BowesRoman inscription
- LavatraeRoman inscription
- LavatraeRoman inscription
- BowesRoman inscription
- BowesRoman inscription
- BowesRoman inscription
- BowesRoman inscription
- BowesRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Rey Cross2.8 km west
- Lavatrae Roman Fort6.5 km east
- Bowes Castle6.5 km 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.
- 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.