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LiDAR map of Princes Risborough
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Princes Risborough, a parish in Buckinghamshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 32 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 97 m and 196 m above sea level; its highest point is about 244 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns and 2 crosses.
Princes Risborough 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 Princes Risborough, 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 Princes Risborough. 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 Princes Risborough. 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 Princes Risborough 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 32 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
- 10.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 32
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 97–196 m above sea level; highest 244 m
- ONS code
- E04001613
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- A bowl barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, 200m north of Whiteleaf CrossScheduled monument
- A bowl barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, 90m north of Whiteleaf CrossScheduled monument
- Hobbs HillAtlas of Hillforts entry
- The MountScheduled monument
- A Neolithic barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, 50m east of Whiteleaf CrossScheduled monument
- Cross dyke on Whiteleaf Hill, 165m south east of the Whiteleaf CrossScheduled monument
- Hill figure on Whiteleaf Hill, known as the Whiteleaf CrossScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Dunstan
- Market House
- Manor House
- Dovecote
- The Red Lion Public House
- Monks Risborough War Memorial
- Lloyds Bank
- The Bell House
- The George and Dragon
- The Three Crowns, with Stable Block
- The Old Garden Centre
- The Close the Old Star
- The Old Cross Keys
- Premises of Jb Heath Limited the Corner Shop
- The Whiteleaf Cross
- The Old White Lion
- Barclays Bank
- Signal Box
- Library
Other recorded places
- Brush Hill Local Nature ReserveWikidata place
- Princes Risborough railway stationWikidata place
- Monks RisboroughWikidata place
- Monks RisboroughWikidata place
- AlscotWikidata place
- AskettWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Whiteleaf Cross440 m east
- Cymbeline's Castle2.9 km north-east
- Boddington Camp7.7 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Bledlow-cum-Saunderton
- Lacey Green
- Great and Little Hampden
- Ellesborough
- Longwick-cum-Ilmer
- Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.