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LiDAR map of Carn Brea
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Carn Brea, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 138 recorded places here: 54 listed buildings, 52 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 28 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 97 m and 215 m above sea level; its highest point is about 243 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 industrial sites and 1 cross.
Carn Brea 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 Carn Brea, 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 Carn Brea. 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 Carn Brea. 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 52 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Carn Brea 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 (52 features in the parish) and the 138 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
- 12.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 138
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 97–215 m above sea level; highest 243 m
- ONS code
- E04011418
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- East Pool MineScheduled monument
- Carn BreaAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Part of the mining complex associated with Marriott's Shaft once part of South Wheal Francis tin and copper mineScheduled monument
- Wayside cross on Whitcross Hill, immediately north of Seaview TerraceScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Carn Brea Castle
- Trevenson Church
- Pump Engine House to Robinsons Shaft at South
- Boiler House Immediately to North
- Compressor House, Chimney, Whim Engine House
- Carpenters Shop, Workshops and Forge at Robinsons
- Forest Farm Cross
- St Eunys Well
- Church of St Andrew
- Chimney Stack
- East Pool Mine Engine House
- Pool Basset Institute
- Tincroft Mine Man Engine and Loadings
- Winding Engine House to Smiths Shaft of West
- Former Miners Dry, Bickfords and Palmers Shafts
- Illogan Highway Methodist Church
- Illogan Highway Methodist Church Sunday School
- Illogan Highway Methodist Church Hall
- Pool Methodist Church
- Lychgate, St Andrews Church
- Chimney Stack Beside Red River
- Engine House to Daubuz Shaft on South Wheal
- Winding Engine House to Pascoe's Shaft on South
- Vanner House to Wheal Basset Mine
- Pump Engine House to Lyle's Shaft
- Stamps Engine House to West Basset Stamps
- Calciner at West End of Buddle Floor of West
- Winding Engine House to Chappel's Shaft of Old
- Chimney Stack Beside Red River
- Dunstanville Memorial
and 24 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- South CroftyWikidata place
- Camborne Redruth Community HospitalWikidata place
- Pool AcademyWikidata place
- Combined Universities in CornwallWikidata place
- Great Flat Lode TrailWikidata place
- Carn Brea railway stationWikidata place
- Illogan HighwayWikidata place
- HeartlandsWikidata place
- Broad LaneWikidata place
- Camborne–Redruth Urban DistrictWikidata place
- Carn BreaWikidata place
- Carn ArthenWikidata place
- Church CoombeWikidata place
- Four LanesWikidata place
- West TolgusWikidata place
- BosleakeWikidata place
- BreaWikidata place
- CarnkieWikidata place
- GrillisWikidata place
- PieceWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- East Pool Mine1.6 km north
- Giant's Quoit4.0 km south-west
- Wheal Busy7.8 km north-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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.