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LiDAR map of Ashington
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ashington, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 38 recorded places here: 19 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 20 m and 40 m above sea level; its highest point is about 55 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 industrial site.
Ashington 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 Ashington, 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 Ashington. 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 Ashington. 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 19 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Ashington 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 (19 features in the parish) and the 38 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
- 23.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 38
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 20–40 m above sea level; highest 55 m
- ONS code
- E04012233
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Woodhorn CollieryScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Andrew
- Bothal Castle Remains of Curtain Wall
- Bothal Castle Gatehouse
- Blacksmiths and Joiners Shops
- Cage Shop
- Former Colliery Offices Now Administration Block
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Ashington Co-operative Society Premises
- Village Hall
Other recorded places
- Ashington Town HallWikidata place
- Ashington High SchoolWikidata place
- Northumberland CollegeWikidata place
- Wansbeck General HospitalWikidata place
- North Seaton railway stationWikidata place
- Ashington Colliery Junction railway stationWikidata place
- Ashington railway stationWikidata place
- AshingtonWikidata place
- SheepwashWikidata place
- CASTLEAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MILL RACEAerial survey feature
- RAILWAYAerial survey feature
- WINDER HOUSEAerial survey feature
- SPOIL HEAP\WAGONWAYAerial survey feature
- COLLIERYAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- GARDENAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cresswell Castle6.3 km north-east
- Morpeth Castle6.8 km west
- Motte and bailey castle on Haw Hill6.8 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.