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LiDAR map of Backford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Backford, a parish in Cheshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 15 recorded places here: 10 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 19 m and 36 m above sea level; its highest point is about 41 m.
Backford 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 Backford, 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 Backford. 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 Backford. 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 Backford 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 15 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
- 6.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 15
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 19–36 m above sea level; highest 41 m
- ONS code
- E04012569
Listed buildings
- Church of St Oswald
- Backford Hall
- Chorlton Hall
- Lodge to Backford Hall
- Churchyard Walls and Gateway to Church of St
- Sundial in Churchyard of St Oswalds Church
- Table Tomb Bearing Margel Arms Churchyard of St
- Footpath Guidepost
- Footpath Guidepost
- Parish Boundary Stone in the Grounds of Chester
Other recorded places
- Chester ZooWikidata place
- Chester Zoo monorailWikidata place
- Chorlton-by-BackfordWikidata place
- BackfordWikidata place
- CaughallWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- St. Plegmund's well5.6 km east
- Shotwick Castle5.7 km west
- Stanlow Abbey5.7 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Mickle Trafford and District
- Wervin
- Upton-by-Chester
- Moston
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Lea-by-Backford
- Croughton
- Capenhurst
- Stoak
- Little Stanney
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.