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LiDAR map of Sawtry
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Sawtry, a parish in Cambridgeshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 14 recorded places here: 7 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 50 m above sea level; its highest point is about 64 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn, 1 monastic site and 1 moated site.
Sawtry 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 Sawtry, 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 Sawtry. 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 Sawtry. 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 Sawtry 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 14 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
- 25.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 14
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–50 m above sea level; highest 64 m
- ONS code
- E04001733
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Monk's Hole barrow, 630m NNE of Monk's Wood FarmScheduled monument
- Sawtry Abbey: A Cistercian abbey on the southern edge of Sawtry FenScheduled monument
- Site of Sawtry Judith village adjoining Archers WoodScheduled monument
- Sawtry moat and shrunken medieval villageScheduled monument
- SawtryAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of All Saints
- Manor House Farmhouse
- Row of Five Headstones in Churchyard of Former
- The Francis Pottery
- Village Lockup Rear Number 14 the Green
- Boundary Post
- Mells
Other recorded places
- Monks WoodWikidata place
- SawtryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Sawtry Abbey2.3 km east
- Woodwalton Castle3.8 km east
- Ramsey Abbey12.1 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Abbots Ripton
- Alconbury Weston
- Upton and Coppingford
- Hamerton and Steeple Gidding
- Little Gidding
- Wood Walton
- Great Gidding
- Conington
- Glatton
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.