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LiDAR map of Kirkwhelpington
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Kirkwhelpington, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 36 recorded places here: 16 scheduled monuments, 11 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 170 m and 271 m above sea level; its highest point is about 319 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 Roman sites, 3 barrows or cairns, 2 moated sites and 1 castle.
Kirkwhelpington 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 Kirkwhelpington, 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 Kirkwhelpington. 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 Kirkwhelpington. 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 Kirkwhelpington 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 36 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
- 48.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 36
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 170–271 m above sea level; highest 319 m
- ONS code
- E04010817
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Catcherside CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Great WanneyAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Round cairn, 220m West of Broom HouseScheduled monument
- Round cairn, 720m WNW of Ray CottagesScheduled monument
- Round cairn, 1.2km NNW of FerneyriggScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead and later steadings, 800m NNW of FerneyriggScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead, hut-circle and co-axial field system 1.3km north-west of FerneyriggScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 470m north of ColdwellScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 1.4km north-west of FerneyriggScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead, 500m north of Herpath HouseScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead and associated annexe, 180m SSE of Herpath HouseScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead, 650m ENE of Wolf CragScheduled monument
- Bastle, 100m south-west of Ray CottagesScheduled monument
- Ferneyrigg moated siteScheduled monument
- Moated site at Fawns FarmScheduled monument
- Capheaton tileryScheduled monument
- Deserted village (site of) at West Whelpington CragScheduled monument
- Fishpond, 400m south-west of Ray CottagesScheduled monument
- Kirkharle HallRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Little Harle Tower
- Church of Wilfrid
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Kirkwhelpington Bridge
- Kirkharle Manor
- Monument to Wm. Atkinson C.20 Yards
- Old Temperance
- Loraine Memorial Stone C.60 Yards South
- Memorial to Atkinson Children C.25 Yards
- Milestone C 1/4 Mile
- Milestone C 200 Yards
Other recorded places
- Knowesgate railway stationWikidata place
- Kingdom of BerniciaWikidata place
- Kirkharle HallWikidata place
- KirkwhelpingtonWikidata place
- NorthumberlandWikidata place
- KirkharleWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Romano-British settlement and Iron Age defended settlement8.1 km east
- Habitancum8.6 km west
- Standing stone and adjacent round cairn9.4 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.