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LiDAR map of Swaffham Prior
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Swaffham Prior, a parish in Cambridgeshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 25 recorded places here: 10 listed buildings, 10 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m below sea level and 36 m above it; its highest point is about 45 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 long barrow or chambered tomb.
Swaffham Prior 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 Swaffham Prior, 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 Swaffham Prior. 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 Swaffham Prior. 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 10 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Swaffham Prior 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 (10 features in the parish) and the 25 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
- 19.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 25
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly −1–36 m above sea level; highest 45 m
- ONS code
- E04001646
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Long barrow 410m south east of Partridge Hall FarmScheduled monument
- Swaffham Prior HouseRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Church of St Cyriac and Julitta
- Church of St Mary
- Windmill, to Rear of the Mill House
- The Hall
- Baldwin Manor
- Zoar Chapel
- The Forge
- Red Lion Public House
- Pound, Lock Up and Fire Engine House
- Former Smock windmill
Other recorded places
- Swaffham Prior railway stationWikidata place
- Swaffham PriorWikidata place
- The National StudWikidata place
- TEMPLEAerial survey feature
- MOATAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- FLOOD DEFENCESAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Swaffham Bulbeck Priory1.0 km south-west
- Devil's Dyke2.0 km north
- Burwell Castle2.9 km north-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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.