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LiDAR map of Saltney
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Saltney, a community in Flintshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 15 recorded places here: 14 Coflein records, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 4 m and 6 m above sea level; its highest point is about 15 m.
Saltney 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 Saltney, 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 Saltney. 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 Saltney 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 15 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
- 3.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 15
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–6 m above sea level; highest 15 m
- ONS code
- W04000206
Other recorded places
- Vickers Wellington XIV HF136Coflein record
- Saltney Ferry Railway Station, SaltneyCoflein record
- St Matthew's Church, SaltneyCoflein record
- Saltney Ferry RoadCoflein record
- SaltneyCoflein record
- Saltney Ferry English PresbyterianCoflein record
- Saltney Primitive Methodist Church, High StreetCoflein record
- Saltney Slate Depot, Mold Junction, SaltneyCoflein record
- Dee Iron WorksCoflein record
- SaltneyWikidata place
- Chesterbank Business Centre, SaltneyCoflein record
- Gas Works at Candle Works, River Lane, SaltneyCoflein record
- Gas Works at Bone Manure Works, River LaneCoflein record
- Gas Works at St. Davids Oil Works, River LaneCoflein record
- Dee Oil Works Gas HolderCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Bretton Hall, Flintshire1.5 km south
- Minerva's Shrine, Chester3.9 km east
- Chester city walls4.0 km 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.