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LiDAR map of Broughton and Bretton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Broughton and Bretton (Brychdyn a Bretton), a community in Flintshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 22 recorded places here: 14 Coflein records, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments, 1 listed building. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 5 m and 62 m above sea level; its highest point is about 130 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 moated sites.
Broughton and Bretton 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: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Broughton and Bretton, 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 Broughton and Bretton. 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
See Broughton and Bretton 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 and the 22 recorded places in the community, 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
- Flintshire, Wales
- Area
- 13.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 22
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–62 m above sea level; highest 130 m
- ONS code
- W04000990
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bretton Hall Moated SiteScheduled monument
- Green Lane Farm Moated SiteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- North American Mustang Mk 1 Ag585Coflein record
- Supermarine Spitfire I L1043Coflein record
- Supermarine Spitfire II a P8181Coflein record
- Broughton & Bretton railway stationWikidata place
- Broughton Primitive Methodist Chapel, BroughtonCoflein record
- Bretton Methodist New Connexion Chapel, BrettonCoflein record
- Broughton Shopping ParkWikidata place
- Hawarden Airfield;Broughton Airfield, BroughtonCoflein record
- Bretton BridgeWikidata place
- Sir John Glynne's CanalWikidata place
- Warren Hall, Garden, BroughtonCoflein record
- Broughton Hall, Garden, BroughtonCoflein record
- Cherry Orchard Farm, Tree Mound, BroughtonCoflein record
- Mold Junction, Saltney FerryCoflein record
- Broughton HallWikidata place
- Ridge and Furrow CropmarksCoflein record
- Hawarden Aircraft Factory; Broughton AirbusCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Hawarden Old Castle2.5 km north-west
- Bretton Hall, Flintshire2.6 km east
- Dodleston Castle3.9 km south-east
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: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m 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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.