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LiDAR map of Chesham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Chesham, a parish in Buckinghamshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 38 recorded places here: 24 listed buildings, 13 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 103 m and 161 m above sea level; its highest point is about 168 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn.
Chesham 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 Chesham, 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 Chesham. 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 Chesham. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Chesham 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 and the 38 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
- Buckinghamshire, England
- Area
- 14.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 38
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 103–161 m above sea level; highest 168 m
- ONS code
- E04001569
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow in Lowndes Park, known as the `Rolling Pin'Scheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Great Germains
- Little Germains
- Vale Farmhouse
- Hollybush Farmhouse
- Chesham Quaker Meeting House
- Christ Church
- Mill House to Weirhouse Mill
- The Queens Head Public House
- Weirhouse Mill
- The Hen and Chickens Public House
- Wrens Nest
- The Post Office
- Chesham War Memorial
- Chesham Underground Station
and 9 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Chesham LibraryWikidata place
- Chesham MosqueWikidata place
- River ChessWikidata place
- Sands BankWikidata place
- Captain's Wood, BuckinghamshireWikidata place
- Chesham MuseumWikidata place
- Chesham branchWikidata place
- Chesham Urban DistrictWikidata place
- Lye GreenWikidata place
- Pond ParkWikidata place
- BotleyWikidata place
- WatersideWikidata place
- CheshamWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Hawridge Court ringwork4.2 km north
- Cholesbury Camp6.3 km north-west
- Berkhamsted Castle7.3 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.