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LiDAR map of Birtley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Birtley, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 20 recorded places here: 10 scheduled monuments, 6 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 130 m and 274 m above sea level; its highest point is about 310 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 Roman sites, 3 barrows or cairns and 1 settlement.
Birtley 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 Birtley, 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 Birtley. 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 Birtley. 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 Birtley 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 20 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
- 34.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 20
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 130–274 m above sea level; highest 310 m
- ONS code
- E04010747
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hut circle, 420m north west of High Carry HouseScheduled monument
- Two round cairns, 220m south west of Pittland HillsScheduled monument
- Round cairn, 300m south of Lowshield GreenScheduled monument
- Round cairn, 800m north east of Lowshield GreenScheduled monument
- Roman milestone N of Waterfalls FarmScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead, 300m north of ButelandScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead, 520m north east of Birtley ShieldsScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement, 300m north of The HeughScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement, 700m north west of The HeughScheduled monument
- Goodwife's Hut Romano-British settlement, 310m WNW of South FarmScheduled monument
- Dere StreetAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Giles
- Carrycoats Hall
- Birtley Castle, in Garden of Birtley Hall
- War Memorial by the Church of St Giles
- Limekiln C 300 Yards
- Footbridge 30 Yards
Other recorded places
- English invasion of ScotlandWikidata place
- Countess Park railway stationWikidata place
- WhitesideWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Habitancum5.2 km north
- The Goatstones8.2 km south-west
- Chollerford Bridge11.3 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.