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LiDAR map of Altarnun
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Altarnun, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 207 recorded places here: 134 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 39 scheduled monuments, 25 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 192 m and 308 m above sea level; its highest point is about 368 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 11 barrows or cairns, 7 settlements, 5 henges and standing stones and 4 medieval settlements.
Altarnun 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 Altarnun, 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 Altarnun. 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 Altarnun. 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 134 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Altarnun 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 (134 features in the parish) and the 207 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
- Cornwall, England
- Area
- 60.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 207
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 192–308 m above sea level; highest 368 m
- ONS code
- E04011400
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- The Goodaver Stone Circle, 610m ESE of Tresibbet FarmScheduled monument
- Nine Stones stone circle 1.03km NNW of Bowhayland FarmScheduled monument
- Round (or petal) cairn on the summit of Leskernick HillScheduled monument
- Wayside cross 315m north of The Old Rectory, AltarnunScheduled monument
- Iron Age defended settlement 425m west of TrebrayScheduled monument
- Ring cairn and two kerbed cairns on Bray DownScheduled monument
- Cross on Halvana MoorScheduled monument
- Six cairns on Buttern HillScheduled monument
- Two stone hut circles with adjacent prehistoric field wall and incorporated medieval transhumance hut 180m north east of Tresibbet FarmScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle with adjacent prehistoric field walls and incorporated post-medieval peat mound 280m NNE of Tresibbet FarmScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle 325m NNW of Tresibbet FarmScheduled monument
- Platform cairn with outer bank and central mound 740m NNE of Goodaver FarmScheduled monument
- Prehistoric coaxial field system, incorporated and adjacent hut circles, stone setting, linear boundaries and medieval settlement on Fox Tor and Treburland FarmScheduled monument
- Prehistoric and medieval linear boundary 1.34km south of EastmoorgateScheduled monument
- Prehistoric standing stone 500m NNE of Spettigue FarmScheduled monument
- Prehistoric and medieval linear boundary with associated peat stack platform 475m SSW of EastmoorgateScheduled monument
- Co-axial field system, hut circle settlements, cairnfield and land boundaries on Carne DownScheduled monument
- Platform cairn with rim bank and central cairn, and a secondary cairn, on the summit of Carne DownScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle 525m SW of West Carne FarmScheduled monument
- Later Prehistoric to Roman round 500m NE of West Carne FarmScheduled monument
- Two round cairns 1.38km WSW of Tresellern FarmScheduled monument
- Round cairn 1.58km WNW of Tresellern FarmScheduled monument
- Prehistoric ritual enclosure 1.7km NW of Tresellern FarmScheduled monument
- Prehistoric stone alignment 1km SSE of EastmoorgateScheduled monument
- Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and medieval transhumance hut 1.49km NW of Tresellern FarmScheduled monument
- Platform cairn on Priddacombe DownsScheduled monument
- Prehistoric hut circle settlement on Stanning HillScheduled monument
- Leskernick south stone circleScheduled monument
- Leskernick north stone circleScheduled monument
- Leskernick stone alignmentScheduled monument
- Two Bronze Age settlements, associated field enclosures, small cairns, a cist and a propped stone on the south and western slopes of Leskernick HillScheduled monument
- Multi-span bridge called Trerithick BridgeScheduled monument
- Early post-medieval guide post 270m north west of BowdenScheduled monument
- Vincent Mine CrossScheduled monument
- Settlement W of CargellyScheduled monument
- Deserted medieval settlement 1125m WNW of CanaglazeScheduled monument
- Deserted medieval settlement and field system with incorporated prehistoric settlement and field system and post-medieval farmhouse NW of Tresibbet FarmScheduled monument
- Prehistoric irregular field system and hut circle settlement with adjacent medieval regular field system and deserted settlement SE of Tresibbet FarmScheduled monument
- Prehistoric coaxial and regular field systems, incorporated hut circles and adjacent deserted medieval settlement, droveway and long house on Tregune FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Nonna
- Altarnun Methodist Chapel
- Codda Farmhouse
- Bolventor War Memorial and dwarf walls
- Holy Trinity Church
- Jamaica Inn
- Bolventer School and Walls to Front
- Trecollas Chapel
- Gate, Gate-piers and Flanking Walls at North
- Kings Head Hotel
- Cross at Ockazinney
- Penpont Mill
- Maid Marian Foodstores
- Footbridge to South
- Bridge Over River Inney
- Bridge Directly
- Footbridge and Pack Horse Bridge
- Bridge Over River Inney at Gimblett's Mill
- Boundary Stone
- Cross
- Cross
- Milestone
- Footbridge
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- The BeaconWikidata place
- South CarneWikidata place
- TrewintWikidata place
- BowithickWikidata place
- AltarnunWikidata place
- PalmersbridgeWikidata place
- TolboroughWikidata place
- TredauleWikidata place
- TreweenWikidata place
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- STANDING STONEAerial survey feature
- STONE CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- DROVE ROADAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- CLEARANCE CAIRNAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Nine Stones3.2 km east
- King Arthur's Hall7.8 km west
- Rillaton Barrow9.1 km south-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.