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LiDAR map of Tresco
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Tresco, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 48 recorded places here: 18 scheduled monuments, 14 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 3 m and 31 m above sea level; its highest point is about 44 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 10 barrows or cairns, 2 field systems, 1 military site and 1 castle.
Tresco 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 Tresco, 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 Tresco. 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 Tresco. 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 14 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Tresco 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 (14 features in the parish) and the 48 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
- 3.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 48
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 3–31 m above sea level; highest 44 m
- ONS code
- E04012733
Places with their own page
- /places/tresco-priory/
- /places/king-charles-s-castle/
- /places/oliver-s-battery/
- /places/cromwell-s-castle/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- TrescoRegistered park or garden
- Oliver's Battery, TrescoScheduled monument
- Mid-16th century blockhouse and ramparts with adjacent walling and occupation deposits at Block House PointScheduled monument
- Two kerbed platform cairns 240m north of the Pest House, St Helen'sScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairn group on Abbey Hill, TrescoScheduled monument
- Prehistoric funerary, ritual and settlement remains; post-medieval defences, tin mine, lookouts and enclosures on Castle Down, TrescoScheduled monument
- Prehistoric linear boundary on Puffin IslandScheduled monument
- Round cairn 50m WSW of Vane Hill summit, TrescoScheduled monument
- Two platform cairns north east of Vane Hill summit, TrescoScheduled monument
- Round cairn 25m south west of Vane Hill summit, TrescoScheduled monument
- Prehistoric field systems, settlement and cairns, with post-medieval boundary and shelter on NorthwethelScheduled monument
- Prehistoric field system and cairn, early and later medieval religious complex, post-medieval lookout and quarantine station on St Helen'sScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairn group on Great Hill, TeanScheduled monument
- Prehistoric round cairn 255m south west of Blockhouse Cottages, TrescoScheduled monument
- Prehistoric to early medieval field system and settlement at Dial Rocks, TrescoScheduled monument
- Prehistoric cairns, prehistoric to post-medieval settlements and field systems, an early Christian focus, post-medieval kelp pits and quay on Tean and Old ManScheduled monument
- Prehistoric to post-medieval funerary, field system and settlement remains, with post-medieval kelp pit and deer park on and adjacent to SamsonScheduled monument
- Post-medieval animal-driven crushing mill 270m south west of Blockhouse Cottage, TrescoScheduled monument
- Post-medieval smugglers' cache at 'Smugglers' TrescoScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Piper's HoleWikidata place
- Tresco HeliportWikidata place
- RNAS TrescoWikidata place
- Valhalla MuseumWikidata place
- NorthwethelWikidata place
- TrescoWikidata place
- New GrimsbyWikidata place
- Old GrimsbyWikidata place
- NorthwardWikidata place
- New Grimsby HarbourWikidata place
- CASTLEAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- HOUSEAerial survey feature
- BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- MINEAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Tresco Priory720 m south-east
- Oliver's Battery1.4 km south
- Cromwell's Castle1.4 km north-west
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.