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LiDAR map of Helsington
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Helsington, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 11 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 5 m and 160 m above sea level; its highest point is about 229 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn, 1 industrial site and 1 medieval settlement.
Helsington 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 Helsington, 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 Helsington. 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 Helsington. 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 11 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Helsington 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 (11 features in the parish) and the 26 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
- 13.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–160 m above sea level; highest 229 m
- ONS code
- E04002611
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round cairn 230m north of Berry HolmeScheduled monument
- New Sedgwick gunpowder works, 580m north of Gate HouseScheduled monument
- Part of Helsington medieval village immediately west of Briggs House FarmScheduled monument
- Sizergh CastleRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Sizergh Castle
- Hawes Bridge Over the River Kent
- Church of St John
- Helsington Laithes Mill
- Gatehouse and Office at Sedgwick Powder Works
- Search House and Clocking on Shed at Sedgwick
- Workshop Complex
- Larkrigg Hall Bridge over Lancaster/Kendal Canal
- Horse Park Bridge over Lancaster/Kendal Canal
Other recorded places
- HelsingtonWikidata place
- BrigsteerWikidata place
- GUNPOWDER WORKSAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ROUND CAIRNAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- LANDSCAPE PARKAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Stott Park Bobbin Mill11.7 km west
- Arnside Tower12.8 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.