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LiDAR map of Darlington
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Darlington, County Durham, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 142 recorded places here: 86 listed buildings, 30 places recorded in Wikidata, 23 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 registered parks and gardens, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Darlington lies between about 41 m and 63 m above sea level; its highest point is about 78 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 industrial site.
Darlington 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 Darlington, 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 Darlington. 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 Darlington. 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 23 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Darlington 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 (23 features in this area) and the 142 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
- County Durham, England
- Area
- 29.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 142
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 41–63 m above sea level; highest 78 m
- ONS code
- E43000249
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Coniscliffe Road waterworksScheduled monument
- South Park, DarlingtonRegistered park or garden
- West Cemetery, DarlingtonRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Skerne Bridge
- Bank Top Railway Station
- North Road Railway Station
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Butler House and the Rectory
- Church of St Andrew
- Church of St James
- The Clock Tower
- Friends Meeting House, Darlington
- Polam Hall
- Blackwell Grange Hotel
- Old Town Hall
- Bondgate Methodist Church
- Central School Annexe
- Barclays Bank
- Goods Shed East South
- St Clare's Abbey Chapel
- Hillclose Farm House
- Church of St Hilda
- Haughton Methodist Church
- Roman Catholic Church of St Augustine
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Stockton and Darlington Railway Carriage Works
- The Red Lion Hotel
- South African War Memorial within St Cuthbert's
- The Golden Cock Public House
- The George Public House
- The Mechanics' Institute
- Barmpton, Great Burdon and Haughton-le-Skerne War
and 56 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Tees Cottage Pumping Station3.6 km south-west
- Piercebridge Roman Bridge7.6 km west
- Piercebridge Roman Fort8.0 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Stapleton
- Cleasby
- Low Coniscliffe and Merrybent
- Hurworth
- Morton Palms
- Great Burdon
- Barmpton
- Archdeacon Newton
- Whessoe
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.