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LiDAR map of Cambridge
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 457 recorded places here: 302 listed buildings, 132 places recorded in Wikidata, 12 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 registered parks and gardens, 3 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Cambridge lies between about 7 m and 19 m above sea level; its highest point is about 68 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site and 1 bridge.
Cambridge 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 Cambridge, 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 Cambridge. 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 Cambridge. 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 12 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cambridge 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 (12 features in this area) and the 457 recorded places in this area, 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
- Cambridgeshire, England
- Area
- 40.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 457
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 7–19 m above sea level; highest 68 m
- ONS code
- E43000042
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Botanic Garden, CambridgeRegistered park or garden
- Emmanuel CollegeRegistered park or garden
- Ridgeon's Gardens, Castle HillAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Histon Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- War DitchesAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Cambridge motte and bailey castle, Civil War earthworks and the buried remains of an Iron Age defended settlement, Roman town and former county gaolScheduled monument
- Marion's Close, CambridgeAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Mill Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Cambridge Museum Of Technology (formerly Cheddars Lane Sewage Pumping Station)Scheduled monument
- Arbury RoadAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Chesterton Tower
- King's College, King's Bridge
- Clare College, Clare Bridge
- All Saints Church
- Christ's College, Fellows Building
- The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
- Gonville and Caius College, the Gate of Honour
- School of Pythagoras
- St John's College, New Bridge
- Peterhouse, the Master's Lodge
- Trinity College, Bishop's Hostel
- Gonville and Caius College, the Gate of Humility
- Church of St Mary the Great
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- King's College, Chapel
- St John's College, New Court
- Magdalene College, Pepys Building
- The Senate House
- Trinity College, Fountain in Great Court
- St John's College, Old Bridge
- St John's College, Gateway and Piers
- Trinity College, Trinity Bridge
- King's College, Fellows' Building
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Trumpington War Memorial
- Hobson's Conduit
- Barnwell Priory Barnwell Priory
- Church of St Bene't
- Church of St Botolph
- Church of St Mary the Less
and 272 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Cambridge Folk FestivalWikidata place
- Pink FestivalWikidata place
- Strawberry FairWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Cambridge Castle1.6 km north-west
- Cambridge Museum of Technology1.8 km north-east
- Wandlebury Hill Fort6.0 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Hauxton
- Stapleford
- Great Shelford
- South Trumpington
- Fulbourn
- Grantchester
- Teversham
- Coton
- Madingley
- Fen Ditton
- Girton
- Orchard Park
- Milton
- Impington
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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.