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LiDAR map of Greenhead
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Greenhead, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 150 recorded places here: 87 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 20 Roman inscriptions, 15 ancient places (Pleiades), 10 scheduled monuments, 10 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 159 m and 262 m above sea level; its highest point is about 290 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 Roman sites, 3 industrial sites and 1 castle.
Greenhead 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 Greenhead, 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 Greenhead. 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 Greenhead. 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 87 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
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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 (87 features in the parish) and the 150 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
- 22.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 150
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 159–262 m above sea level; highest 290 m
- ONS code
- E04010787
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Blenkinsopp Castle (uninhabited parts)Scheduled monument
- Great Chesters Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall between the Caw Burn and the track to Cockmount Hill farm in wall miles 42 and 43Scheduled monument
- Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the unclassified road to Old Shield and the field boundary west of the fort in wall miles 45 and 46Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmount Hill and Walltown Quarry East in wall miles 43, 44 and 45Scheduled monument
- Chesters Pike Roman temporary campScheduled monument
- The section of Stanegate Roman road from Fell End Roman temporary camp to the track to Old Shield, and the Roman cemetery adjacent to Carvoran Roman fortScheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry East and Walltown Quarry West in wall mile 45Scheduled monument
- The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Walltown Quarry West in wall miles 43, 44 and 45Scheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Carvoran Roman fort and the west side of the B6318 road in wall mile 46Scheduled monument
- Burnhead Roman temporary campScheduled monument
- (A)EsicaAncient place (Pleiades)
- UntitledAncient place (Pleiades)
- MagnisAncient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 45B (Walltown West)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 42B (Great Chesters)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 43Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 45A (Walltown)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 46AAncient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 46 (Carvoran)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 44 (Allolee)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 44A (Allolee West)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 43A (Cockmount Hill)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 45 (Walltown)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 44B (Mucklebank)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 43B (Allolee East)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Hadrians Wall, Milecastles and Turrets
- Greenhead Memorial Cross
- Blenkinsopp Hall
- Balustraded Garden Wall and Flight of Steps
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Lime Kiln
- Lime Kiln
- Road Bridge
Other recorded places
- Milecastle 43Wikidata place
- Milecastle 45Wikidata place
- Milecastle 46Wikidata place
- Milecastle 44Wikidata place
- Thirlwall CastleWikidata place
- Alloa Lea Quarry CaveWikidata place
- Allolee to WalltownWikidata place
- Greenhead railway stationWikidata place
- Kingdom of NorthumbriaWikidata place
- GreenheadWikidata place
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
- Great ChestersRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Aesica1.4 km east
- Lees Hall Roman camp1.8 km south-east
- Thirlwall Castle3.0 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.