Home LiDAR map Cornwall Penzance
LiDAR map of Penzance
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Penzance, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 125 recorded places here: 100 listed buildings, 17 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 12 m and 99 m above sea level; its highest point is about 119 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 crosses and 1 bridge.
Penzance 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 Penzance, 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 Penzance. 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 Penzance. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Penzance 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 and the 125 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
- 12.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 125
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 12–99 m above sea level; highest 119 m
- ONS code
- E04011505
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round called Lesingey RoundScheduled monument
- Lescudjack CastleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Round 280m WNW of Higher Faugan HotelScheduled monument
- Morrab GardensRegistered park or garden
- Market crossScheduled monument
- Wayside cross in Newlyn churchyard, south of the churchScheduled monument
- Early Christian memorial stone beside Bleu BridgeScheduled monument
- Tremethick Cross, 760m east of Tremethick FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Market Building
- Egyptian House
- Church of Pol de Leon
- Castle Horneck
- Treneere Manor
- Newlyn war memorial
- South Pier
- The Old Harbour Pier and Walls
- Trereife Manor
- Church of St Gulval
- West Penwith Rdc Offices
- The Union Hotel
- Church of St Clement
- Methodist Church
- Baptist Church
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Nancealverne House
- Rosehill Manor
- Trinity Methodist Chapel
- Anchor Studio
- Camelot Restaurant
- The Old Standard
- The Vicarage
- Rosecadgehill House
- Keigwin Little Keigwin
- Battery and War Memorial
- Jubilee Pool
- The Ship Inn
- Abbey Basin Quays and Slipway
- Boaze Castle House
and 70 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Penzance HeliportWikidata place
- Penzance railway stationWikidata place
- Penlee Quarry railwayWikidata place
- TrevarrackWikidata place
- PenzanceWikidata place
- GwavasWikidata place
- HeamoorWikidata place
- ChyandourWikidata place
- RaginnisWikidata place
- SheffieldWikidata place
- TredavoeWikidata place
- TrevithalWikidata place
- TrythoggaWikidata place
- WherrytownWikidata place
- St Clare Cemetery Cross of Sacrifice, PenzanceWikidata place
- St Clare Cemetery, PenzanceWikidata place
- Grand CasinoWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Round, courtyard house, stone hut circle settlement2.4 km south-west
- Boleigh Fogou3.4 km south-west
- Lesingey Round3.6 km north-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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.