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LiDAR map of Muncaster
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Muncaster, a parish in Cumbria, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 41 recorded places here: 21 scheduled monuments, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 listed buildings, 2 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 8 m and 289 m above sea level; its highest point is about 496 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 15 barrows or cairns, 4 Roman sites, 1 long barrow or chambered tomb and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Muncaster 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 Muncaster, 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 Muncaster. 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 Muncaster. 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 Muncaster 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 41 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
- 28.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 41
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 8–289 m above sea level; highest 496 m
- ONS code
- E04010483
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls CastleScheduled monument
- Ravenglass Roman fortScheduled monument
- Muncaster CastleRegistered park or garden
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielingsScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree ForceScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree ForceScheduled monument
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree ForceScheduled monument
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of StaintonScheduled monument
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black BeckScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and enclosure 750m west of Barnscar settlementScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield 570m south west of Barnscar settlementScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlementScheduled monument
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field systemScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of StaintonScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The KnottScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The KnottScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The KnottScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The KnottScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven CragScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke WaterScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlementScheduled monument
- Roman kilnsScheduled monument
- Ravenglass Roman Bath HouseAncient place (Pleiades)
- *GlannoventaAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Muncaster Castle
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Muncaster War Memorial and area wall
- Farm Building Immediately
- Entrance Gateway and Walls
- Monument North
- Bay Horse
Other recorded places
- Muncaster FellWikidata place
- Stainton PikeWikidata place
- Ravenglass and Eskdale RailwayWikidata place
- Ravenglass railway stationWikidata place
- Miteside Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Murthwaite Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Ravenglass railway stationWikidata place
- MuncasterWikidata place
- DAM\MILL PONDAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\WALLAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Ravenglass Roman Bath House4.8 km west
- Glannoventa4.8 km west
- Irton Cross5.7 km north-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.