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LiDAR map of Forest and Frith
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Forest and Frith, a parish in County Durham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 49 recorded places here: 25 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 listed buildings, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 394 m and 630 m above sea level; its highest point is about 715 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 Roman sites, 2 industrial sites and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Forest and Frith 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 Forest and Frith, 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 Forest and Frith. 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 Forest and Frith. 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 25 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Forest and Frith 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 (25 features in the parish) and the 49 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
- 71.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 49
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 394–630 m above sea level; highest 715 m
- ONS code
- E04010630
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Iron Age cemetery, early medieval enclosure and medieval farmstead with a long boundary, Middle Hurth EdgeScheduled monument
- Romano-British hut circle and enclosing bank and ditch immediately east of High Force QuarryScheduled monument
- Roman period native settlements and field system, hut circle, bloomeries, lead smelting site and charcoal pits immediately south east of East Force GarthScheduled monument
- Roman period native settlement at Calf Holm, immediately west of Dine Holm ScarScheduled monument
- Lady's Rake lead mineScheduled monument
- Green Hurth lead mine and ore worksScheduled monument
- Medieval farmstead at High Knott, 380m west of West Force GarthScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Water Wheel Pit
- Bridge and Conduit Arch
- Milestone at Hanging Shaw
- Ettersgill Bridge Over Ettersgill Beck
- Bridge Over Ashgill Beck
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Moor House Nature ReserveWikidata place
- Cauldron SnoutWikidata place
- Harthope MossWikidata place
- Forest and FrithWikidata place
- Langdon BeckWikidata place
- EttersgillWikidata place
- Forest-in-TeesdaleWikidata place
- HarwoodWikidata place
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- DAMAerial survey feature
- HUSHAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.