LiDAR map of Truro
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Truro, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 89 recorded places here: 75 listed buildings, 11 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 12 m and 79 m above sea level; its highest point is about 99 m.
Truro 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 Truro, 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 Truro. 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 Truro. 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 3 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Truro 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 (3 features in the parish) and the 89 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
- 10.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 89
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 12–79 m above sea level; highest 99 m
- ONS code
- E04013097
Listed buildings
- Truro Cathedral
- Truro Crown Courts
- Lander's Monument
- St Paul's Church Hall
- Church of St Keyne
- New Bridge Over River Allen
- The City Hall
- Princes House
- Alverton Manor Hotel
- Penhaligon House, Princes Street Front
- Old Mansion House
- The Mansion House
- Church of St John
- Church of St Paul
- St George's Hotel
- Quay walls and railings
- Daniell Arms Public House
- Former Baptist Chapel, Now Part of County Museum
- The War Memorial
- Old County Hall
- New County Hall
- Joseph Emidy Headstone and Footstone
- Kenwyn War Memorial
- Railway Viaduct
- Railway Viaduct Railway Viaduct
- Bridge Over River Kenwyn
- Holy Well of St Keyne to South
- Mission Church of St Mary
- Church of St George
- Lych Gate to South
and 45 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Royal Cornwall InfirmaryWikidata place
- Truro SchoolWikidata place
- Truro High SchoolWikidata place
- Truro Royal Observer Corps Group HeadquartersWikidata place
- Truro railway stationWikidata place
- Newham VillaWikidata place
- TruroWikidata place
- KenwynWikidata place
- Old Kiln MuseumWikidata place
- Truro CemeteryWikidata place
- Bosvigo gardensWikidata place
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Wheal Busy8.0 km west
- St Piran's Round10.6 km north-west
- Glasney College11.1 km south
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.