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LiDAR map of Kempston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Kempston, a parish in Bedfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 33 recorded places here: 18 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 28 m and 38 m above sea level; its highest point is about 41 m.
Kempston 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 Kempston, 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 Kempston. 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 Kempston. 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 18 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Kempston 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 (18 features in the parish) and the 33 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
- 5.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 33
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 28–38 m above sea level; highest 41 m
- ONS code
- E04011894
Listed buildings
- Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regimental War
- The Keep
- Church of the Transfiguration
- King William Iv Public House
- The Old Mill House
Other recorded places
- Grange SchoolWikidata place
- Ridgeway SchoolWikidata place
- St John's SchoolWikidata place
- Kempston and Elstow Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Kempston gravel pit railwayWikidata place
- Kempston Urban DistrictWikidata place
- Kempston Central and EastWikidata place
- Kempston NorthWikidata place
- Kempston SouthWikidata place
- KempstonWikidata place
- EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLYAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)Aerial survey feature
- DEFENDED LOCALITYAerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)Aerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Bedford Castle3.2 km north-east
- Eastcotts Castle8.0 km south-east
- Renhold Castle8.6 km north-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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.