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LiDAR map of Burtholme
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Burtholme, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 22 recorded places here: 8 ancient places (Pleiades), 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 listed buildings, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 47 m and 129 m above sea level; its highest point is about 164 m.
Burtholme 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 Burtholme, 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 Burtholme. 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 Burtholme. 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 5 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Burtholme 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 (5 features in the parish) and the 22 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
- 11.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 22
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 47–129 m above sea level; highest 164 m
- ONS code
- E04002451
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks and the road to Garthside in wall miles 52, 53 and 54Scheduled monument
- Turret 52BAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 53B (Craggle Hill)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 54 (Randylands)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 55 (Low Wall)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 54B (Howgill)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 53 (Banks Burn)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 53A (Hare Hill)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 54A (Garthside)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Milecastle 55Wikidata place
- Milecastle 54Wikidata place
- Milecastle 53Wikidata place
- BanksWikidata place
- BurtholmeWikidata place
- MILECASTLEAerial survey feature
- VALLUMAerial survey feature
- DEFENCE WORK\DITCH\WALLAerial survey feature
- SQUARE ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DEFENCE WORK\DITCH\WALLAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Lanercost Priory1.4 km south
- Triermain Castle4.7 km north-east
- Irthington Castle6.3 km south-west
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.