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LiDAR map of Launceston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Launceston, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 35 recorded places here: 26 listed buildings, 5 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 74 m and 153 m above sea level; its highest point is about 184 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 cross.
Launceston 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 Launceston, 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 Launceston. 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 Launceston. 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 5 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Launceston 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 (5 features in the parish) and the 35 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
- 8.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 35
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 74–153 m above sea level; highest 184 m
- ONS code
- E04011466
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Dunheved Cross, 80m west of Launceston HospitalScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- The North Gatehouse of Launceston Castle
- Launceston Castle Keep
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- The South Gatehouse of Launceston Castle
- Launceston Town Walls
- The Eagle House Hotel
- Church of St Stephen
- The South Gate
- The West Bridge
- Priory House
- Roman Catholic Church of St Cuthbert Mayne
- Lawrence House and Museum and Forecourt Wall
- The Tamar Health Club
- National Westminster Bank
- Oddfellows Hall
- Holy Well of St Stephen
- The Northgate Inn
- Well Head
- Ridgegrove Mills
- Ridgegrove Mills Granary
- The Guildhall and Town Hall
- The Westgate Inn
- Congregational Sunday School
- The Mill Leat Aqueduct Over Former Launceston
- Milestone on B3254 near Recycling Centre
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Launceston PrioryWikidata place
- River KenseyWikidata place
- LauncestonWikidata place
- BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Launceston Castle770 m north
- Nine Stones11.2 km south-west
- Rillaton Barrow14.0 km south-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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.