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LiDAR map of Kilham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Kilham, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 62 recorded places here: 33 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 12 scheduled monuments, 6 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 listed building. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 81 m and 277 m above sea level; its highest point is about 430 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 Roman sites, 3 barrows or cairns, 1 castle and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Kilham 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 Kilham, 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 Kilham. 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 Kilham. 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 33 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Kilham 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 (33 features in the parish) and the 62 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
- 31.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 62
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 81–277 m above sea level; highest 430 m
- ONS code
- E04010815
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ring ChestersAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Bowmont Hill CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Pawston Hill CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Castle Hill CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Howtel Field CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Kypie HillAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Southern ring cairn on Coldsmouth HillScheduled monument
- Northern ring cairn on Coldsmouth HillScheduled monument
- Two round cairns south west of Tuppie's GraveScheduled monument
- Elsdonburn Roman period native settlements and medieval shielingScheduled monument
- Roman period native settlement 250m west of Elsdonburn ShankScheduled monument
- Roman period native farmstead 320m north east of LongknoweScheduled monument
- Roman period aggregate village on Coldsmouth Hill, 650m south east of St Ethelrede's ChapelScheduled monument
- Howtel tower houseScheduled monument
- Five shielings 620m NNE of Elsdonburn ShankScheduled monument
- Enclosed settlement and subsidiary enclosures 160m N of Ring Chesters defended settlementScheduled monument
- Roman period native enclosed settlement 700m south of Ring Chesters defended settlementScheduled monument
- Hut circle, cultivation terraces and farmstead of later prehistoric date, and medieval settlement and field system 800m and 740m south of Elsdonburn ShankScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Monylaws CovertRecorded place
- Countrup SikeRecorded place
- Monylaws CovertRecorded place
- MindrumRecorded place
- Kilham HillRecorded place
- MindrumRecorded place
- Housedon HillWikidata place
- KilhamWikidata place
- HowtelWikidata place
- STOCK ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SHIELINGAerial survey feature
- SHIELINGAerial survey feature
- TERRACEAerial survey feature
- FARMSTEADAerial survey feature
- MULTIVALLATE HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- HILLTOP ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MULTIVALLATE HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- FARMSTEADAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Wark on Tweed Castle8.9 km north-west
- Etal Castle10.7 km north-east
- Prehistoric enclosed settlement10.8 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.