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LiDAR map of Tyne & Wear
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Tyne & Wear at one metre per pixel, with the 2,645 recorded historic places the heritage records hold here, the Roman roads and the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1843–1913 over the same ground. Free, in a browser.
Places on the LiDAR in Tyne & Wear
Each page shows the site on the LiDAR with its record, its location and the recorded places around it.
- ArbeiaRoman fort
- Bowes RailwayScheduled monument
- Burradon TowerCastle
- Clifford's FortMilitary site
- Dunston staithsScheduled monument
- Ravensworth CastleCastle
- Swing BridgeBridge
- Tynemouth Castle and PrioryPriory
- Washing Wells Roman FortRoman fort
LiDAR maps of the parishes of Tyne & Wear
One page for each of the 15 parishes, with a LiDAR picture and the recorded places inside it.
- Blakelaw and North Fenham3 recorded places
- Brunswick12 recorded places
- Burdon7 recorded places
- Dinnington19 recorded places
- Gateshead480 recorded places
- Hazlerigg8 recorded places
- Hetton42 recorded places
- Lamesley89 recorded places
- Newcastle upon Tyne651 recorded places
- North Gosforth24 recorded places
- North Tyneside395 recorded places
- South Tyneside214 recorded places
- Sunderland593 recorded places
- Warden Law8 recorded places
- Woolsington27 recorded places
About the LiDAR
The terrain model is made from an airborne laser survey with vegetation and buildings removed, so earthworks show as height: hillfort ramparts, barrows, Roman road banks, hollow ways and ridge and furrow. In the app the picture is computed as you change the settings, with a moveable sun, a local relief model, multidirectional hillshading and the VAT composite. See how to read a LiDAR map and what archaeology looks like on LiDAR.
Sources
- LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
Last updated 2026-10-16.