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LiDAR map of Alston Moor
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Alston Moor, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 826 recorded places here: 751 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 53 listed buildings, 12 places recorded in Wikidata, 10 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 347 m and 622 m above sea level; its highest point is about 846 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 industrial sites, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 moated site.
Alston Moor 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 Alston Moor, 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 Alston Moor. 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 Alston Moor. 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 751 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Alston Moor 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 (751 features in the parish) and the 826 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
- Cumbria, England
- Area
- 149.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 826
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 347–622 m above sea level; highest 846 m
- ONS code
- E04002511
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Parkin's Stones round cairn on the summit of Benty HillScheduled monument
- Rotherhopefell lead and fluorspar mines and ore worksScheduled monument
- Whitesike and Bentyfield lead mines and ore worksScheduled monument
- Upper Slatesike lead mine and ore works, 750m north east of Black DubScheduled monument
- Lead mines, ore works and smeltmill at NentheadScheduled monument
- Perry's DamScheduled monument
- Fletcheras Rake lead workingsScheduled monument
- Lead rake workings on Flinty Fell, 800m north west of Flinty QuarryScheduled monument
- Hudgill lead mine bingsteads, 200m north east of Hudgill FarmScheduled monument
- Moated site, 340m north east of Moorwell BridgeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Killhope Cross
- Alston War Memorial
- Market Cross
- High Mill
- Clarghyll Hall
- Claim Stone in Corner of Field C1000 Yards North
- H Kearton and Sons Store
- The Gatehouse
- Former Powder Magazine
- The Angel Inn
- Nenthall War Memorial
- Milestone Set Into Rounded Corner of Wall
- Church of St Augustine
- Burial Ground Walls and Wooden Gate
- Quaker Meeting House Alston
- Congregational Chapel
- Church Gates
- Walls and Gates to St Augustine's Churchyard
- Nenthead Methodist Church
- Blackstock's Baker's Shop
- Library Town Hall Trustee Savings Bank
- South Tyne House and Part of the Former Alston
- Hillcrest Hotel
- Blue Bell Hotel
- Memorial Pump and Canopy
- Property Occupied by the Sunderland Building
- Monument View
- Lowbyer Manor Hotel
- Former Carlisle and Cumberland Bank and bank
- Milestone to North
and 23 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Rampgill mineWikidata place
- Burnhope SeatWikidata place
- Alston Shingle BanksWikidata place
- Moorhouse and Cross FellWikidata place
- Ashgill ForceWikidata place
- River TeesWikidata place
- Gilderdale Halt railway stationWikidata place
- AlstonWikidata place
- BaylesWikidata place
- GarrigillWikidata place
- LeadgateWikidata place
- NentheadWikidata place
- LEAD MINEAerial survey feature
- MINE BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- DAMAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND CAIRNAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Whitley Castle7.4 km north-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Dufton
- Forest and Frith
- West Allen
- Stanhope
- Milburn
- Plenmeller with Whitfield
- Culgaith
- Ousby
- Melmerby
- Glassonby
- Kirkoswald
- Ainstable
- Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh
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.