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LiDAR map of Ely
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ely, a parish in Cambridgeshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 75 recorded places here: 47 listed buildings, 19 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m below sea level and 16 m above it; its highest point is about 33 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle.
Ely 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 Ely, 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 Ely. 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 Ely. 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 7 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Ely 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 (7 features in the parish) and the 75 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
- 59.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 75
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly −2–16 m above sea level; highest 33 m
- ONS code
- E04012829
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hospital of St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene, St John's FarmScheduled monument
- 'Cherry Hill', castle moundScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Bishop's Palace Bishop's Palace
- Stables to Bishop's Palace
- Oliver Cromwell's House
- Sessions House
- Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
- Ely Porta
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Wall to the Garden of the the Almonry and Painted
- Prior Craudens Chapel
- The Chapel of the Infirmary
- Almonry, Sacrists Hall, Gate and Goldsmiths Tower
- Church of St Peter in Ely
- Almonry, Sacrists Hall, Gate and Goldsmiths Tower
- Walls to the Guest Quarters of the Monastery
- Powcher's Hall
- The Black Hostelry and Cellarers Chamber
- The Chantry
- Guest Quarters of the Monastery
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Hill House
- Congregational Chapel
- Nos. 16 and 18 High Street
- Old Fire Engine House
- Castlehythe
- Castlehythe
- Castlehythe
- Castlehythe
- Castlehythe
- Castlehythe
- Cutter Public House
and 17 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Ely Castle4.1 km west
- Isleham Priory Church9.1 km south-east
- Stretham Old Engine10.3 km south-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.