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LiDAR map of Stanhope
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Stanhope, a parish in County Durham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 160 recorded places here: 93 listed buildings, 45 places recorded in Wikidata, 10 scheduled monuments, 10 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 Roman inscriptions. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 286 m and 590 m above sea level; its highest point is about 747 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 industrial sites, 1 castle, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Stanhope 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 Stanhope, 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 Stanhope. 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 Stanhope. 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 10 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Stanhope 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 (10 features in the parish) and the 160 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
- 255.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 160
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 286–590 m above sea level; highest 747 m
- ONS code
- E04010698
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Westgate CastleScheduled monument
- Camp at High NorthgateScheduled monument
- Cairnfield on Crawley Edge, 500m north west of Hill CrestScheduled monument
- Enclosure NW of Old Park HouseScheduled monument
- Middle Greenlaws Level lead mine and ore worksScheduled monument
- St Botolph's Chapel, 280m north east of Frosterley BridgeScheduled monument
- Middlehope Shield and Low Slit lead mines and ore worksScheduled monument
- Old Rookhope ore hearth lead smeltmill, 630m north west of Lintzgarth PlantationScheduled monument
- Brandon Walls lead mine and ore worksScheduled monument
- Cambokeels medieval siteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Stanhope Castle
- Westgate Primitive Methodist Chapel
- Stanhope Hall
- Horsley Hall
- Stanhope Bridge Over River Wear
- Park Level Mine Jigger House and Crushing Mill
- Stanhope Hall Mill
- Greenhead Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached
- Unthank Hall
- Westernhopeburn West Farmhouse
- Low Bishopley Farmhouse and Barn
- North Lodge and Wall to Stanhope Castle
- High House Chapel and Former Minister's House
- Parish Hall of Church of St Michael
- Peart Tomb
- Hackword Tomb
- Eastgate War Memorial
- Cowshill War Memorial
- Rookhope War Memorial
- Coronation Bridge Over River Wear
- Footbridge Over Railway Line
- Guidepost at Junction of A689 and Causeway Road
- Heathery Cleugh Bridge, Over Heathery Cleugh
- Wearhead Methodist Chapel
- Churchyard Walls and Hearse House
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- High Crooked Well
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Methodist Chapel
and 63 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Battle of Stanhope ParkWikidata place
- Heathery Burn CaveWikidata place
- Crawley Edge CairnsWikidata place
- Cornish Hush MineWikidata place
- Westernhope Burn WoodWikidata place
- Stanhope Town HallWikidata place
- North PenninesWikidata place
- West Newlandside MeadowsWikidata place
- Burnhope ReservoirWikidata place
- Cornriggs MeadowsWikidata place
- Fairy Holes CaveWikidata place
- Far High House MeadowsWikidata place
- Greenfoot QuarryWikidata place
- North Pennine BatholithWikidata place
- Killhope MuseumWikidata place
- Old Moss Lead VeinWikidata place
- Rogerley QuarryWikidata place
- Slit WoodsWikidata place
- West Rigg Open CuttingWikidata place
- Wearhead railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Blanchland Abbey13.4 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Forest and Frith
- West Allen
- Newbiggin
- Hunstanworth
- Alston Moor
- Eggleston
- Middleton in Teesdale
- Wolsingham Park Moor lands cmn to Stanhope, Tow Law and Wolsingham
- Muggleswick
- Edmondbyers
- South Bedburn
- Lands common to Hamsterley, Lynesack and Softley and South Bedburn
- Wolsingham
- Allendale
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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.