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LiDAR map of Cardington
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cardington, a parish in Bedfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 51 recorded places here: 36 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 11 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 24 m and 48 m above sea level; its highest point is about 84 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 church or chapel and 1 moated site.
Cardington 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 Cardington, 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 Cardington. 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 Cardington. 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 36 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cardington 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 (36 features in the parish) and the 51 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
- Bedfordshire, England
- Area
- 8.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 51
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 24–48 m above sea level; highest 84 m
- ONS code
- E04012993
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Site discovered by aerial photography S of villageScheduled monument
- Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complex 600m NW of Octagon FarmScheduled monument
- Settlement site N of Chapel End FarmScheduled monument
- Manor Farm moated siteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Howard's House
- Parish Cottage Parish Hall
- Cardington Railway Station
- Methodist Chapel
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Trinity House
- The Kings Arms Public House
- R101 Monument in Cardington Cemetery
- Whitbread Almshouses
- Cardington War Memorial
- Cardington Bridge
Other recorded places
- MORTUARY ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- MORTUARY ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DECOY PONDAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- MOATAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- SUBRECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MORTUARY ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MORTUARY ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- SUBRECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARRAGE BALLOON SITEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Eastcotts Castle3.0 km south
- Wardon Abbey4.2 km south-east
- Renhold Castle4.3 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.