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LiDAR map of Burland and Acton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Burland and Acton, a parish in Cheshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 28 recorded places here: 16 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 canal structures, 1 registered battlefield. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 47 m and 70 m above sea level; its highest point is about 82 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 moated sites.
Burland and Acton 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 Burland and Acton, 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 Burland and Acton. 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 Burland and Acton. 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 Burland and Acton 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 28 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
- 13.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 28
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 47–70 m above sea level; highest 82 m
- ONS code
- E04013179
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Battle of Nantwich 1644Registered battlefield
- Edleston moated site and fishpondScheduled monument
- Monks Lane moated site, ActonScheduled monument
- Dorfold HallRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Dorfold Hall
- Nantwich Aqueduct
- St Mary's Churchyard Wall
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Ravensmoor Windmill
- Dorfold Dairy House
- Glebe House
- Clock Tower Building North
- The Star Inn
- Statue Group in Forecourt of Dorfold Hall
- Llangollen Branch of Shropshire Union Canal
- Signpost at the South End of Long Lane
- Shropshire Union Canal Main Line Nantwich
- Green Lane Bridge Number 90
- Shropshire Union Canal Main Line Lock Gate
- Swanley Bridge Number 8
Other recorded places
- Battle of NantwichWikidata place
- International Cheese AwardsWikidata place
- ActonWikidata place
- RavensmoorWikidata place
- HenhullWikidata place
- SwanleyWikidata place
- Nantwich AqueductCanal structure
- Dry Dock, Nantwich Canal Centre (Leased)Canal structure
Nearest places with their own page
- Woodhey Cross4.4 km west
- Wybunbury Tower8.2 km east
- Beeston Castle11.0 km north-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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.