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LiDAR map of Kingwater
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Kingwater, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 25 recorded places here: 16 scheduled monuments, 4 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 132 m and 302 m above sea level; its highest point is about 356 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 henge or standing stone and 1 Roman site.
Kingwater 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 Kingwater, 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 Kingwater. 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 Kingwater. 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 4 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Kingwater 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 (4 features in the parish) and the 25 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
- 75.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 25
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 132–302 m above sea level; highest 356 m
- ONS code
- E04002463
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Standing stone on Standingstone RiggScheduled monument
- Shieling, 110m south of Bull CragScheduled monument
- Shieling north of Jerrycalf RiggScheduled monument
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlementScheduled monument
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation PlantScheduled monument
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test AreaScheduled monument
- RAF Spadeadam: Blue Streak Underground Launcher FacilityScheduled monument
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test AreaScheduled monument
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test AreaScheduled monument
- The easternmost of two shielings below Rowantree CragScheduled monument
- The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree CragScheduled monument
- Two shielings below Crying CragScheduled monument
- Shieling on N bank of Irthing below Bells BraesScheduled monument
- Shielings and later farmstead on Cock Law, 600m north west of HorseholmeScheduled monument
- Group of shielings, 100m north of Tinkler CragsScheduled monument
- Shieling 150m south of Tinkler CragsScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- RAF SpadeadamWikidata place
- Butterburn FlowWikidata place
- KingwaterWikidata place
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SHIELINGAerial survey feature
- SHIELINGAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Triermain Castle5.9 km south-west
- Thirlwall Castle6.0 km south-east
- Aesica8.7 km south-east
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.