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LiDAR map of Sandy
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Sandy, a parish in Bedfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 30 recorded places here: 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 9 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 listed buildings, 3 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 20 m and 63 m above sea level; its highest point is about 70 m.
Sandy 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 Sandy, 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 Sandy. 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 Sandy. 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 9 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Sandy 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 (9 features in the parish) and the 30 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
- 17.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 30
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 20–63 m above sea level; highest 70 m
- ONS code
- E04012812
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Galley HillAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Sandy Lodge Promontory FortAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Caesar's CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- The HazellsRegistered park or garden
- SandyAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Hazells Hall
- Church of St Swithun
- Sandy War Memorial
- Kings Arms Public House
- The Cross Inn
- Dick Turpin Public House
- Queens Head Public House
Other recorded places
- Sandy WarrenWikidata place
- Potton BrookWikidata place
- The Lodge RSPB reserveWikidata place
- The RiddyWikidata place
- Sandy railway stationWikidata place
- Sandy Urban DistrictWikidata place
- SeddingtonWikidata place
- SandyWikidata place
- BeestonWikidata place
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Sutton Packhorse Bridge4.1 km south-east
- Gannocks Castle4.2 km north-west
- Great Barford Bridge5.5 km north-west
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.