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LiDAR map of Borrowdale
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Borrowdale, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 59 recorded places here: 45 places recorded in Wikidata, 10 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 94 m and 620 m above sea level; its highest point is about 908 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 hillfort, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 industrial site.
Borrowdale 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 Borrowdale, 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 Borrowdale. 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 Borrowdale. 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 Borrowdale 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 59 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
- 76.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 59
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 94–620 m above sea level; highest 908 m
- ONS code
- E04002390
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Castle Crag, BorrowdaleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Reecastle Crag hillfortScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Brund FellScheduled monument
- Borrowdale graphite mines and associated grinding mill, 660m north west of SeathwaiteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Grange War Memorial
- Ashness Bridge
- Rosthwaite Bridge
- Grange Bridge
- The Yew Tree Restaurant
- Watendlath Packhorse Bridge
- Coombe Gill Mill
- Packhorse Bridge
- Stockley Bridge
- Folly Bridge
Other recorded places
- Southern FellsWikidata place
- Bowder StoneWikidata place
- Hollows Farm SectionWikidata place
- Johnny WoodWikidata place
- Great WoodWikidata place
- Lodore - Troutdale WoodsWikidata place
- Seatoller Wood, Sourmilk Gill & SeathwaiteWikidata place
- Stonethwaite WoodsWikidata place
- Great EndWikidata place
- Styhead TarnWikidata place
- Lodore FallsWikidata place
- Taylor Gill ForceWikidata place
- Lake DistrictWikidata place
- Sprinkling TarnWikidata place
- Sty HeadWikidata place
- High RaiseWikidata place
- Walla CragWikidata place
- Allen CragsWikidata place
- Angle TarnWikidata place
- Base BrownWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Castlerigg stone circle10.2 km north
- Langdale Boulders10.2 km south-east
- Moot mound at Fell Foot Farm, Little Langdale11.8 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Eskdale
- Wasdale
- Lakes
- St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn
- Ennerdale and Kinniside
- Buttermere
- Above Derwent
- Keswick
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.