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LiDAR map of Ratlinghope
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ratlinghope, a parish in Shropshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 18 recorded places here: 11 scheduled monuments, 5 listed buildings, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 289 m and 463 m above sea level; its highest point is about 532 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 10 barrows or cairns and 1 cross.
Ratlinghope 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 Ratlinghope, 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 Ratlinghope. 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 Ratlinghope. 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 Ratlinghope 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 18 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
- Shropshire, England
- Area
- 22.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 18
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 289–463 m above sea level; highest 532 m
- ONS code
- E04011344
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round cairn on Stiperstones, 150m south of Manstone Rock.Scheduled monument
- Castle Ring, Stitt HillAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Ratlinghope Hill CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Round cairn 38m NE of OS triangulation pillar on Manstone RockScheduled monument
- Round cairn on Stiperstones, 350m SSW of the Devil's ChairScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 200m north-west of Wildmoor Pool.Scheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Wildmoor, 200m north-east of the Shooting Box.Scheduled monument
- Shooters Hut disc barrow, 1500m south-west of Duckley Nap.Scheduled monument
- Cross-dyke on Ratlinghope Hill, 740m north of Brow FarmScheduled monument
- Tor cairn on Stiperstones, 130m SSE of Manstone Rock.Scheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 640m north west of Lower DarnfordScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow and a section of boundary bank at Henley NapScheduled monument
- Round cairn south of Cranberry Rock, 460m north east of Bog CottageScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Nearest places with their own page
- Castle Bank5.6 km east
- Hoarstones7.4 km west
- Caer Caradoc8.6 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.