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LiDAR map of Melbecks
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Melbecks, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 18 recorded places here: 8 listed buildings, 5 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 264 m and 595 m above sea level; its highest point is about 670 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 industrial sites.
Melbecks 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 Melbecks, 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 Melbecks. 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 Melbecks. 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 Melbecks 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 18 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
- 32.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 18
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 264–595 m above sea level; highest 670 m
- ONS code
- E04007502
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- GunnersideAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Sir Francis Level ore works, Gunnerside Gill, west of Winterings PasturesScheduled monument
- Gunnerside Gill lead mines and ore worksScheduled monument
- The Blakethwaite DamsScheduled monument
- Moss DamScheduled monument
- Blakethwaite Smelt Mill and dressing floorsScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Paradise
- Kings Head Inn
- Wall, Railings, Gates and Gate-piers to Methodist
- Punch Bowl Hotel
- Barney Beck High Bridge
- Methodist Chapel
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Old Post Office
Other recorded places
- Gunnerside GillWikidata place
- Low RowWikidata place
- MelbecksWikidata place
- KeartonWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Surrender lead smelt mill4.5 km east
- Maiden Castle8.2 km east
- Bainbridge Roman fort and annexe10.8 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.