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LiDAR map of Bryher
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bryher, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 27 recorded places here: 15 scheduled monuments, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 listed buildings, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 aerial survey feature. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 3 m and 33 m above sea level; its highest point is about 43 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 3 field systems, 2 industrial sites and 1 settlement.
Bryher 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 Bryher, 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 Bryher. 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 Bryher. 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 1 aerial survey feature in the area. More about this map
See Bryher 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 (1 feature in the parish) and the 27 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
- 1.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 27
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 3–33 m above sea level; highest 43 m
- ONS code
- E04012729
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Shipman HeadAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Two kerbed platform cairns north of Bonfire Carn on eastern Samson Hill, BryherScheduled monument
- Prehistoric entrance grave at Works Carn, BryherScheduled monument
- Prehistoric entrance grave and round cairn on western Samson Hill, BryherScheduled monument
- Prehistoric field system on the south west flank of Samson Hill, BryherScheduled monument
- Prehistoric hut circle south of The Brow, BryherScheduled monument
- Prehistoric field system on Gweal Hill, BryherScheduled monument
- Prehistoric field system and settlement on Heathy Hill, BryherScheduled monument
- Three prehistoric cairns on Gweal Hill, BryherScheduled monument
- Iron Age cist on northern Samson Hill, 165m NNE of Western Carn, BryherScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairn cemetery and field system on Shipman Head Down and Great Bottom, BryherScheduled monument
- Civil War battery at Works Point, BryherScheduled monument
- Civil War battery on The Green, BryherScheduled monument
- Post-medieval watch house and Coastguard lookout on Watch Hill, BryherScheduled monument
- Post-medieval pilot lookout on Timmy's Hill, BryherScheduled monument
- Gig shed on the north coast of Great Porth, BryherScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Norrard RocksWikidata place
- Maiden BowerWikidata place
- Castle BryherWikidata place
- GwealWikidata place
- MincarloWikidata place
- IlliswilgigWikidata place
- BryherWikidata place
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cromwell's Castle1.2 km north-east
- King Charles's Castle1.4 km north-east
- Tresco Priory2.0 km east
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.