LiDAR map of Kendal
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Kendal, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 88 recorded places here: 66 listed buildings, 14 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 scheduled monuments, 2 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 46 m and 145 m above sea level; its highest point is about 200 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 mottes or ringworks, 2 bridges, 1 industrial site and 1 castle.
Kendal 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 Kendal, 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 Kendal. 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 Kendal. 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 2 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Kendal 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 (2 features in the parish) and the 88 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
- 14.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 88
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 46–145 m above sea level; highest 200 m
- ONS code
- E04002617
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Castle Howe motte and baileyScheduled monument
- Kendal Castle and associated earthworks, and earlier ringworkScheduled monument
- Nether BridgeScheduled monument
- Miller BridgeScheduled monument
- Greenside lime kiln 480m west of Castle HoweScheduled monument
- Stramongate BridgeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Abbot Hall Art Gallery
- Friends Meeting House
- Church of Holy Trinity and St George
- Castle Dairy, 26 Wildman Street
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Nos 13, 15, 17, 17a and 19
- Highgate Hotel
- Wattsfield Farmhouse and Cottage
- Numbers 26 and 28 with Entrance to Yard 24
- Helsington Laithes Farmhouse
- Shop
- Collinfield Farmhouse
- Nos 39, 43, 45, 45a and Entrance to Yard 41
- No.7
- Gilthwaiterigg
- Church of St Thomas
- Memorial Cross in Churchyard
- Parish Hall
- New Inn
- Beezon Lodge
- Number 32
- County Offices
- Change Bridge over former Lancaster-Kendal Canal
- Unitarian Chapel and Schoolroom to North
- Anchorite Well
- Warehouse
- Number 40 and Entrance to Unitarian Chapel
- Kendal United Reformed Church
- Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry
- Globe Inn
and 36 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Castle HoweWikidata place
- St George's Church, KendalWikidata place
- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHSWikidata place
- River MintWikidata place
- Queen Katherine Street drill hall, KendalWikidata place
- Kendal CollegeWikidata place
- Westmorland General HospitalWikidata place
- Kendal railway stationWikidata place
- Oxenholme Lake District railway stationWikidata place
- HallgarthWikidata place
- OxenholmeWikidata place
- KentriggWikidata place
- KendalWikidata place
- Kendal CemeteryWikidata place
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- PLATFORMAerial survey feature
Neighbouring parishes
- Stainton
- Helsington
- Underbarrow and Bradleyfield
- Strickland Ketel
- Natland
- New Hutton
- Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg
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.