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LiDAR map of Aldford and Saighton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Aldford and Saighton, a parish in Cheshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 30 recorded places here: 15 listed buildings, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 7 m and 29 m above sea level; its highest point is about 42 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 moated sites and 1 motte or ringwork.
Aldford and Saighton 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 Aldford and Saighton, 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 Aldford and Saighton. 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 Aldford and Saighton. 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 4 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Aldford and Saighton 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 (4 features in the parish) and the 30 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
- Cheshire, England
- Area
- 19.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 30
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 7–29 m above sea level; highest 42 m
- ONS code
- E04012566
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Aldford motte and bailey and shell keep castleScheduled monument
- Bruera moated site and adjacent field systemScheduled monument
- Moated site of Lea Hall, 80m east of Leahall FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Abbey Gate College Gatehouse Gateway
- Iron Bridge Over the River Dee
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Abbey Gate College Chapel
- Aldford Hall
- Aldford Bridge, Carrying Chester Road Over
- Churchyard Wall and Gates, Church of St John
- Stocks, Almost
- Water Tower
- Saighton Primary School
- Cross and Stepped Base
- Abbey Gate College, the Main Block Except
- Former nurse's accommodation and dispensary
- Bridge Carrying Buerton Approach Over Aldford
- Bridge Carrying Buerton Approach Over Chester Road
Other recorded places
- Saighton Lane FarmWikidata place
- Aldford BrookWikidata place
- Aldford and SaightonWikidata place
- Lea NewboldWikidata place
- Churton HeathWikidata place
- AldfordWikidata place
- BrueraWikidata place
- BuertonWikidata place
- MOTTE AND BAILEYAerial survey feature
- UNDERGROUND MONITORING POSTAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Aldford Castle1.2 km west
- Heronbridge Roman Site4.5 km north-west
- Pulford Castle5.6 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Coddington
- Handley
- Golborne David
- Hargrave and Huxley
- Huntington
- Waverton
- Rowton
- Churton
- Rossett
- Poulton and Pulford
- Eaton and Eccleston
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.