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LiDAR map of Otterburn
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Otterburn, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 34 recorded places here: 17 scheduled monuments, 11 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 1 registered battlefield. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 158 m and 314 m above sea level; its highest point is about 378 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 8 Roman sites, 5 barrows or cairns and 1 castle.
Otterburn 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 Otterburn, 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 Otterburn. 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 Otterburn. 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 Otterburn 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 34 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
- 56.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 34
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 158–314 m above sea level; highest 378 m
- ONS code
- E04010846
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Battle of Otterburn 1388Registered battlefield
- Colwell Hill CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Fawdon HillAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Round cairn, 300m south east of Fiddlers WoodScheduled monument
- Round cairn, 100m ENE of Dunns CottageScheduled monument
- Unenclosed settlement, field system, cairnfield, round cairn cemetery, round cairn, shieling and enclosed cremation cemetery on Todlaw PikeScheduled monument
- Round cairn 460m south of Cowey's CairnScheduled monument
- Round cairn cemetery on Levey Bog, 880m north east of HopeheadScheduled monument
- Bastle, 480m north east of ShittleheughScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead, 550m south-east of ShittleheughScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 500m north west of GarretshielsScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead on Wood Hill 800m north west of Old Town CottagesScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 850m south of TroughendScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead, 330m south of WoodhillScheduled monument
- Four Romano-British settlements, field system and cord rig cultivation on Fairney CleughScheduled monument
- Target operator bunker, cable trenching and three target pits 750m north of HopeheadScheduled monument
- Three target operator bunkers 730m north of HopeheadScheduled monument
- Target operator bunker, cable trenching and three target pits 650m north of HopeheadScheduled monument
- Branshaw deserted settlement, bastle, field system and section of Roman roadScheduled monument
- Romano-British and medieval settlement, field system, cord rig cultivation, cairnfield and round cairn on Barracker RiggScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Otterburn Mill
- Otterburn Tower
- Otterburn Hall
- Otterburn Hall Farmhouse
- South Lodge to Otterburn Hall
- Limekiln C.200 Yards North
- Garden Walls, Walled Garden and Ha Ha Wall South
- Tenters C.40 Yards South
- Milestone C.1/2 Mile West-north
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Battle of OtterburnWikidata place
- RedesdaleWikidata place
- OtterburnWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Bremenium6.5 km north-west
- Elsdon Castle6.7 km east
- Habitancum7.3 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.