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LiDAR map of Derby
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Derby, Derbyshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 241 recorded places here: 147 listed buildings, 82 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 scheduled monuments, 3 registered parks and gardens, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Derby lies between about 42 m and 96 m above sea level; its highest point is about 137 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 Roman sites, 1 monastic site and 1 cross.
Derby 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 Derby, 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 Derby. 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 Derby. 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 1 aerial survey feature in the area. More about this map
See Derby 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 (1 feature in this area) and the 241 recorded places in this area, 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
- Derbyshire, England
- Area
- 78.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 241
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 42–96 m above sea level; highest 137 m
- ONS code
- E43000014
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Derby ArboretumRegistered park or garden
- Littlechester Roman siteScheduled monument
- Derby Racecourse Roman vicus and cemeteryScheduled monument
- Darley Abbey (remains of)Scheduled monument
- Anglo-Scandinavian high cross shaft in the churchyard of St Werburgh's Church, SpondonScheduled monument
- Roman bath house at Parker's PieceScheduled monument
- Section of Rykneld Street Roman road and remains of Bronze Age cemetery at LittleoverScheduled monument
- The Old Cemetery, DerbyRegistered park or garden
- Nottingham Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Strutt's Park Roman fortAncient place (Pleiades)
- DerbentioAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- St Marys Bridge Chapel
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Old Grammar School
- Church of St Mary
- Allestree Hall
- Midland Railway War Memorial
- Cathedral Church of All Saints
- Nottingham Road War Memorial
- St Helens House
- Bakewell's Gates at The Silk Mill Industrial
- St Alkmunds Well
- County Hall
- Darley Abbey Mills
- Market Hall
- War Memorial
- Allenton War Memorial
- Littleover War Memorial
- Little Chester War Memorial
- Handyside Arch Bridge
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St Luke
- Church of St Mary
- Church of St Anne
- Friary Hotel
- College of Art Annexe
- Green Man Inn
- Derby City Church
- Darley Abbey Weir
- Mickleover War Memorial
- Chaddesden War Memorial
and 117 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Derby plague of 1665Wikidata place
- DerventioWikidata place
- King's Mead PrioryWikidata place
- Allenton house fireWikidata place
- Derby Racecourse Roman settlementWikidata place
- Strutt's Park Roman fortWikidata place
- Normanton BarracksWikidata place
- Derby Combined Court CentreWikidata place
- St Mark's Church, DerbyWikidata place
- St Andrew's Church, DerbyWikidata place
- St George's Church, DerbyWikidata place
- St Chad's Church, DerbyWikidata place
- St Augustine's Church, DerbyWikidata place
- St Barnabas' Church, DerbyWikidata place
- St Alkmund’sWikidata place
- Coliseum CinemaWikidata place
- County Cricket Ground, DerbyWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Swarkestone Bridge7.0 km south
- Horston Castle8.1 km north
- Dale Abbey8.8 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Elvaston
- Ockbrook and Borrowash
- Dale Abbey
- Morley
- Breadsall
- Little Eaton
- Swarkestone
- Aston upon Trent
- Barrow upon Trent
- Twyford and Stenson
- Stenson Fields
- Findern
- Burnaston
- Radbourne
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.