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LiDAR map of Whittlesey
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Whittlesey, a parish in Cambridgeshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 32 recorded places here: 14 listed buildings, 12 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades), 1 lost settlement. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m below sea level and 4 m above it; its highest point is about 14 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns and 1 Roman site.
Whittlesey 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 Whittlesey, 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 Whittlesey. 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 Whittlesey. 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 Whittlesey 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 32 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
- 89.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 32
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly −1–4 m above sea level; highest 14 m
- ONS code
- E04001666
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Suet Hills round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 500m south of Bunting's FarmScheduled monument
- Roman field system and trackway with later field ditches and drove on Whittlesey Washes, 60m south of Bedford HouseScheduled monument
- Ring ditch and settlement site north of EastreaScheduled monument
- Must Farm Bronze Age settlementAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Church of St Andrew
- Grove House
- Wilderness House
- Chapel and Mortuary
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Glassmoor Pumping Station
- The Falcon Hotel
- Black Bull Public House
- Two piers each with sculpture of eagle, at No. 11
- Tower Windmill, Rear of Number 40, West End
- Letter a Studio
- Mud walls to the rear of the Black Bull Inn
- Tomb of Sir Harry Smith East North
Other recorded places
- Must Farm Bronze Age settlementWikidata place
- Nene WashesWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Peterborough Castle9.7 km west
- Ramsey Abbey10.5 km south
- Longthorpe Tower12.7 km 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.