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LiDAR map of South Tyneside
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of South Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 208 recorded places here: 92 listed buildings, 48 places recorded in Wikidata, 47 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 16 Roman inscriptions, 3 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in South Tyneside lies between about 12 m and 48 m above sea level; its highest point is about 94 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site, 1 military site and 1 industrial site.
South Tyneside 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 South Tyneside, 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 South Tyneside. 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 South Tyneside. 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 47 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See South Tyneside 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 (47 features in this area) and the 208 recorded places in this area, 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
- Tyne & Wear, England
- Area
- 64.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 208
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 12–48 m above sea level; highest 94 m
- ONS code
- E43000177
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Roman fort, South ShieldsScheduled monument
- Lizard Lane Heavy Anti-Aircraft BatteryScheduled monument
- North and South Marine Parks and Bents ParkRegistered park or garden
- Marsden lime kilnsScheduled monument
- ArbeiaAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Paul
- Cleadon House
- Old Town Hall
- Church of Saint Nicholas
- Hebburn Hall
- Jarrow Town Hall
- Cleadon Tower
- Souter Point Lighthouse
- Boldon Mill
- West Boldon Hall
- Westoe Hall
- Detached chimney at Cleadon Pumping Station
- Scots House
- Bede Cottage and Bede House
- Monkton Farmhouse
- Souter Point Lighthouse Foghorn
- Church of St Hilda
- Walls Extending From Mill Lane Around
- Bede Monastery Museum Jarrow Old Hall
- Lloyds Bank
- The South Groyne
- Trow Rock Floating Platform
- Former Talbot Memorial House
- Forecourt Railings and Statue of Britannia
- The Britannia Public House
- Statue to Sir Charles Mark Palmer
- Boldon War Memorial
- War memorial outside St Hilda's Church
- St Mary's War Memorial
- Whitburn War Memorial
and 62 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Battle of Boldon HillWikidata place
- Academy of LightWikidata place
- South Shields power stationWikidata place
- Whitburn Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- St Bedes Junction rail crashWikidata place
- Temple Memorial ParkWikidata place
- ChichesterWikidata place
- Readhead ParkWikidata place
- Marsden GrottoWikidata place
- Monkton Coke WorksWikidata place
- Tyne Coast CollegeWikidata place
- South Tyneside District HospitalWikidata place
- St Joseph's Catholic AcademyWikidata place
- St Wilfrid's RC CollegeWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Arbeia4.0 km north
- Clifford's Fort4.5 km north
- Tynemouth Castle and Priory5.6 km north
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.