LiDAR map of Kea
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Kea, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 124 recorded places here: 57 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 45 listed buildings, 13 places recorded in Wikidata, 9 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 23 m and 101 m above sea level; its highest point is about 120 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 8 barrows or cairns.
Kea 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 Kea, 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 Kea. 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 Kea. 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 57 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Kea 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 (57 features in the parish) and the 124 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
- 22.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 124
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 23–101 m above sea level; highest 120 m
- ONS code
- E04011450
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Two rounds at Playing Place, 960m and 970m south west of Carlyon FarmScheduled monument
- Round barrow NE of Gew FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 250m south east of GewScheduled monument
- Three bowl barrows 470m and 460m west of BolothoScheduled monument
- Round barrow 650m east of CarrineScheduled monument
- Round barrow 290m north east of PenventonScheduled monument
- Round barrow 230m south east of Chapel FarmScheduled monument
- Round barrow known as Goodern Barrow, 550m east of St Michael's ChurchScheduled monument
- Round barrow and round, 200m south west of CarrineScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- The Friends Meeting House
- Billy Bray's Three Eye Chapel
- St Michael's Church
- Calenick Bridge
- Tower of Former Church of Saint Kea
- All Hallows Church of Saint Kea
- Clock Tower
- Saveock Manor Farmhouse
- Coach House and Stabling at Approx
- Killiow House
- Cowlings Mill
- Chest Tomb and Headstone at Approx
- Weigh House at Approx
- Woodland and Leowartha
- St Kea War Memorial
- Well Head at Approx
- Porth Kea Methodist Church, yard, yard wall
- Cross
- Hugus Methodist Church and Walling Surrounding
- Lych Gate
- Mission Chapel north
- Baldhu Methodist Church and Sunday School
- Kea County Primary School and Playground Walls
- Chest Tomb at Approx
- The Old School
- Chest Tomb at Approx
- Billy Bray's Grave at Approx
- Headstone to the Reverand Thomas Beverley
- Headstone to Thomas Martin at Approx
- The Punch Bowl and Ladle Inn
and 15 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Wheal JaneWikidata place
- St Anthony BatteryWikidata place
- Diocese of TruroWikidata place
- Carrine Common & PenwethersWikidata place
- Playing PlaceWikidata place
- Helston WaterWikidata place
- Old KeaWikidata place
- Porth KeaWikidata place
- Wheal BaddonWikidata place
- BissoeWikidata place
- CoombeWikidata place
- HugusWikidata place
- PenwethersWikidata place
- CHEMICAL WORKSAerial survey feature
- CHEMICAL WORKSAerial survey feature
- SMELT MILLAerial survey feature
- OPEN CAST MINEAerial survey feature
- COPPER MINEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Wheal Busy6.4 km west
- Glasney College8.6 km south
- St Mawes Castle10.6 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.