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LiDAR map of Alnham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Alnham, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 25 recorded places here: 12 scheduled monuments, 6 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 152 m and 493 m above sea level; its highest point is about 774 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 settlements, 3 barrows or cairns, 3 medieval settlements and 1 castle.
Alnham 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 Alnham, 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 Alnham. 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 Alnham. 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 Alnham 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 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
- Northumberland, England
- Area
- 59.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 25
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 152–493 m above sea level; highest 774 m
- ONS code
- E04010730
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hart LawAtlas of Hillforts entry
- High Knowes BAtlas of Hillforts entry
- High KnowesAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Prendwick ChestersAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Castle Hill AlnhamAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Chubden CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Enclosed settlement 310m south west of White GateScheduled monument
- Alnham Castle: a medieval tower houseScheduled monument
- Enclosures on Meggrim's KnoweScheduled monument
- Round cairn 830m SSE of EwartlyScheduled monument
- Cairnfield, unenclosed hut circle settlement and area of cord rig 190m north east of Pigdon's LeapScheduled monument
- Unenclosed hut circle settlement 950m south west of LinhopeScheduled monument
- Unenclosed hut circle settlement 655m south west of White GateScheduled monument
- Palisaded settlement 125m south of North Pike cairnScheduled monument
- Alnham medieval settlementScheduled monument
- Palisaded settlement, 740m north west of NorthfieldheadScheduled monument
- Alnamsheles medieval settlement, 600m west of AlnhammoorScheduled monument
- Leafield Edge medieval settlement and field systemScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- River AlnWikidata place
- BreamishWikidata place
- AlnhamWikidata place
- ScrainwoodWikidata place
- UnthankWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Biddlestone RC Chapel5.6 km south
- Stone circle6.7 km north
- Clinch Castle6.9 km 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.