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LiDAR map of Holwick
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Holwick, a parish in County Durham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 14 scheduled monuments, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 246 m and 541 m above sea level; its highest point is about 618 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 Roman sites, 3 barrows or cairns, 1 castle and 1 cross.
Holwick 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 Holwick, 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 Holwick. 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 Holwick. 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 Holwick 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 24 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
- 23.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 246–541 m above sea level; highest 618 m
- ONS code
- E04010645
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Burnt mound, cairnfield and bloomery at Eel Beck, 480m south of Blackmea Crag, Holwick FellScheduled monument
- Two burnt mounds south of Blackmea Crag Sike, 590m south west of Castle HouseScheduled monument
- Prehistoric settlement, two burnt mounds and a burial cairn on the north bank of Blackmea Crag Sike, 570m south west of Middle FarmScheduled monument
- Burnt mound on the south bank of Scar Beck, 510m south west of Mizzes HouseScheduled monument
- Burial cairns, burnt mound, Roman native settlement, medieval settlement with field system and iron industry remains, and five shielings on Holwick FellScheduled monument
- Roman period native settlement and a bloomery 160m north west of Bleabeck ForceScheduled monument
- Roman period native settlement, medieval bloomery, building and track, and a charcoal pit at Keld Smithy Green, Holwick FellScheduled monument
- Roman period native farmstead at Hind Gate, 140m south of Green HouseScheduled monument
- Two Romano-British hut circles and three shielings on Holwick Scars 250m south of Hungry HallScheduled monument
- Roman period native settlement and field system 260m west of Wynch BridgeScheduled monument
- Medieval iron industry and settlement and Bronze Age burial cairns extending from 260m north west of Eel Beck to 140m south east of Wash BeckScheduled monument
- Group of eight shielings and a track on Crossthwaite Scars 675m north west of Park EndScheduled monument
- Romano-British and medieval settlement and field systems,leadmines and charcoal pit on Crossthwaite Common, south of Park End QuarryScheduled monument
- A group of six shielings and tracks on Holwick Scars, 280m west of Hungry HallScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Middleton QuarryWikidata place
- Middle CrossthwaiteWikidata place
- High ForceWikidata place
- Park End WoodWikidata place
- River LuneWikidata place
- Middleton-in-Teesdale railway stationWikidata place
- KirkcarrionWikidata place
- HolwickWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Cotherstone Castle13.1 km south-east
- Rey Cross13.9 km south
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.