The Northern Regions

WORK CARRIED OUT IN THE NORTH WEST, NORTH EAST AND YORKSHIRE & HUMBER REGIONS

National Mapping Programme (NMP) projects in progress

  • Heddon on the wall
    The Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site survey is being undertaken by the Aerial Survey team based in York. As well as feeding into the revised management plan for the World Heritage Site the survey will form part of the National Mapping Programme, combining aerial survey with existing ground survey to produce a comprehensive record of archaeological features in the area.
  • Magnesian Limestone (NMR17591/20) thumbnail
    The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire project has been devised to provide a better overall understanding of the nature, distribution and chronology of the archaeology of the aggregate yielding geology of the project area in order that its results might be used toward providing a more focussed, meaningful and consistent approach in the archaeological requirements for mitigating the impact of the aggregates industry in the future.
  • Rolston thumbnail
    As part of the Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (RCZAS) of the Yorkshire Coast and Humber Estuary an aerial photographic interpretation and mapping project is being carried out as part of the National Mapping Programme (NMP).

Completed National Mapping Programme (NMP) projects

  • Durham ALSF thumbnail
    The Durham ALSF NMP project is part of a wider project carried out in partnership with Durham County Council and Archaeological Research Services with funding from English Heritage via the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF).
  • Howardian Hill thumbnail
    The Howardian Hills NMP project was carried out as part of a broader project looking at the archaeology of the Howardian Hills AONB designed to feed into a management plan for the area.
  • View across the Howgill Fells (NMR 17341/14) 27-JUL-1999 © English Heritage. NMR
    The Howgill Fells project began in June 1992 as an extension to the Yorkshire Dales NMP project, in order to complete the archaeological mapping of the whole area of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
  • Woofa Bank, Iron Age enclosure (NMR 17100/21) 31-MAR-1998 © Crown copyright. NMR
    The Lower Wharfedale NMP survey was carried out to examine that part of West Yorkshire comprising lower Wharfedale and the A1 corridor. The project links up the Yorkshire Dales NMP, and Vale of York NMP thereby completing the NMP mapping of the whole of a major river valley from source to sea.
  • Carrock Fell seen from below
    The mapping of the Skiddaw Massif was undertaken as part of NMP at the request of the Lake District National Park to assist their management of the extensive mining remains in the area. The project also allowed the reassessment of well preserved prehistoric field systems and the context for the newly discovered Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure on Green How.
  • Thornborough thumbnail
    The Thornborough Henges ALSF NMP was done as a major contribution to the English Heritage Conservation Plan for the area immediately surrounding one of the most intriguing prehistoric ritual complexes in Britain.
  • 3D visualisation of the project area looking south-west across the Old Bewick forts (Till Block) and up the Breamish Valley
    The Till Tweed NMP project is one of four main strands of the Till-Tweed Geoarchaeology Project that together form a coherent body of research and assessment. The Till-Tweed Geoarchaeology Project is funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) and operated by Drs Clive Waddington and Dave Passmore, University of Newcastle.
  • Possible Roman enclosure surviving as an earthwork in woodland. (NMR17265/58) 22-MAR-1999 © Crown copyright. NMR
    The Vale of York project area is bounded by completed NMP projects and was aimed to provide a unique opportunity to compare the archaeology of these diverse landscapes in northern England. Mapping was completed in 2000 and a report on the project is due for publication soon.
  • The Warcop Army Training Estate project was carried out on behalf of the Defence Estates Agency of the Ministry of Defence to record the archaeological remains on their Training Estate at Warcop so as to feed into a management plan for the area
  • Littondale (NMR 17341/25) 27-JUL-1999 © English Heritage. NMR
    The Yorkshire Dales project was carried out as a multi-disciplinary project aimed at looking at ways of rapidly enhancing the archaeological record for an upland area. It built on the methodologies derived for air photo interpretation survey from the mapping projects for Kent and Dartmoor, and was a pilot for the National Mapping Programme.

Detailed survey work and flying

  • Flight traces for English Heritage aerial surveys - Click for a more detailed map. Please note that the lines show the route taken by the aircraft and do not necessarily mean that photographs were taken.
    English Heritage carries out a regular programme of flying from bases in the north of the country at York, and in the south at Kidlington, near Oxford.
  • Cawthorn Camps
    Cawthorn Camps is currently undergoing a new study to inform the production of a revised management plan for the site under the joint auspices of English Heritage and the North York Moors National Park. This composite image, based on a 1925 photograph of Sir Ian Richmond's excavations, shows fort ‘A' and illustrates how air photo rectification and interpretation can be combined with the results of recent field survey.
  • Fylingdales thumbnail (NMR 20178/20)
    The wild fire that raged across Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire, between the 17th and 21st of September 2003 devasted the vegetation and fragile peat soils of 2.4km2 of heather moorland, but in the process uncovered an archaeological landscape largely hidden by the heather for decades.
The images used on this page are copyright English Heritage unless specified otherwise. For further details of any photographs or other images and for copies of these, or the plans and reports related to the project please contact the NMR English Heritage's public archive.

For further information on a project or any other aspect of the work of the Aerial Survey team please contact us at: AerialSurvey@english-heritage.org.uk.

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