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LiDAR map of Castor
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Castor, a parish in Cambridgeshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 28 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 5 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 8 m and 34 m above sea level; its highest point is about 39 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 Roman sites, 1 henge or standing stone, 1 moated site and 1 settlement.
Castor 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 Castor, 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 Castor. 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 Castor. 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 Castor 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 28 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
- Cambridgeshire, England
- Area
- 13.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 28
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 8–34 m above sea level; highest 39 m
- ONS code
- E04001105
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Milton HallRegistered park or garden
- The Standing Stones 'Robin Hood' and 'Little John'Scheduled monument
- Roman house N of Castor MillsScheduled monument
- Roman site in Normangate FieldScheduled monument
- Moated site, Castor Manor FarmScheduled monument
- Settlement W of boathouse, River NeneScheduled monument
- CastorAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Milton Hall
- Church of St Kyneburgha
- Durobrivae and Pump Against South Wall of Kitchen
- Ferry Bridge
- Stables
- Old Laundry to South
- Lodge on Peterborough Drive North
- Castor House
- Orangery to South
- Range of Stables and Smithy
- Stone
- Royal Oak Public House
- The Old Smithy
- Prince of Wales Feathers
- Wind Mill
- Castor Mill
- Village Hall
- The Fitzwilliam Arms
- Remains of Village Cross
Other recorded places
- Nene Park, PeterboroughWikidata place
- Nene Valley RailwayWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Longthorpe Tower2.6 km east
- Durobrivae2.8 km south-west
- Peterborough Castle5.7 km 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.