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LiDAR map of Gayles
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Gayles, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 27 recorded places here: 25 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 138 m and 377 m above sea level; its highest point is about 395 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn.
Gayles 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 Gayles, 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 Gayles. 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 Gayles. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Gayles 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 and the 27 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
- North Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 10.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 27
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 138–377 m above sea level; highest 395 m
- ONS code
- E04007485
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Castle Steads, GaylesAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 360m ENE of Shooters WellScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 360m east of Shooters WellScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 365m east of Shooters WellScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation 370m ESE of Shooters WellScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone 565m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom RiggScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked stone 440m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom RiggScheduled monument
- Ring cairn on Gayles Plantation, 390m ENE of Shooters WellScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked stone 585m SSW of Jenny's PlantationScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked stone 530m NNW of the triangulation point on Feldom RiggScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone 565m north of the triangulation point on Feldom RiggScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 370m ENE of Shooters WellScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 440m ENE of Shooters WellScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation 490m ENE of Shooters WellScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone 18m south of Stone Man PlantationScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked stone 650m SSE of Jenny's PlantationScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone 620m south of Jenny's PlantationScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone 495m south east of Jenny's PlantationScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked stone 435m south of Jenny's PlantationScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone 525m SSW of Jenny's PlantationScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone 505m south east of Jenny's PlantationScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked stone 520m north east of the triangulation point on Feldom RiggScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked stone 465m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom RiggScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone 495m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom RiggScheduled monument
- Cup marked stone 490m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom RiggScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked stone on Gayles Plantation 410m north of the triangulation point on Feldom RiggScheduled monument
Other recorded places
- GaylesWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Ravensworth Castle3.1 km east
- Greyfriars8.0 km south-east
- Richmond Bridge8.2 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.