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LiDAR map of Cotherstone
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cotherstone, a parish in County Durham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 16 scheduled monuments, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 193 m and 433 m above sea level; its highest point is about 473 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle and 1 barrow or cairn.
Cotherstone 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 Cotherstone, 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 Cotherstone. 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 Cotherstone. 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 Cotherstone 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 26 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
- 33.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 193–433 m above sea level; highest 473 m
- ONS code
- E04010613
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cotherstone CastleScheduled monument
- Rock with many cup marks on the east bank of How Beck, 450m north west of West Loups's, Cotherstone MoorScheduled monument
- Three prehistoric carved rocks on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 860m SSE Pitcher HouseScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 870m south south east of Pitcher HouseScheduled monument
- Cup and groove marked rock on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 920m south east of Pitcher HouseScheduled monument
- Medieval farmstead and two prehistoric carved rocks at West Loup'sScheduled monument
- Rock with one cup on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 860m north west of West Loups'sScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 860m south east of Pitcher HouseScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock 80m south of West Loups's, Cotherstone MoorScheduled monument
- Cup ring and groove marked rock outcrop at Toby Wall, 260m north east of West Loups's, Cotherstone MoorScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock on Cotherstone Moor 520m north west of East Loups'sScheduled monument
- Cup, ring and groove marked rock 310m west of East Loups's, Cotherstone MoorScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock outcrop at the base of a wall 120m east of East Loups's, Cotherstone MoorScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock 100m north of West Loups's, Cotherstone MoorScheduled monument
- Ring cairn on Goldsborough, Cotherstone Moor, 840m south of Pitcher HouseScheduled monument
- Medieval farmstead 330m north west of Water KnottScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Mere Beck MeadowsWikidata place
- Cotherstone MoorWikidata place
- Hunder Beck JuniperWikidata place
- Cotherstone railway stationWikidata place
- Tees railway viaductWikidata place
- East BriscoeWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Rey Cross6.4 km south-west
- Bowes Castle6.5 km south-east
- Lavatrae Roman Fort6.5 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.