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LiDAR map of Hexton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Hexton, a parish in Hertfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 12 recorded places here: 9 listed buildings, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 registered park or garden, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 62 m and 149 m above sea level; its highest point is about 181 m.
Hexton 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 Hexton, 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 Hexton. 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 Hexton. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Hexton 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 and the 12 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
- Hertfordshire, England
- Area
- 6.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 12
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 62–149 m above sea level; highest 181 m
- ONS code
- E04004775
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ravensburgh CastleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Hexton ManorRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Medieval Cross Base at Hexton Manor
- Church of St Faith
- Hexton Manor
- Hexton Manor Farmhouse
- Pump on Roadside, Outside Nos 1 and 2 New Cottages
- Pump on Roadside
- Villagers Pump at Junction of Village Street
- Posting Box Built Into Front Wall of Number 1 Ivy
- Pump on Roadside
Other recorded places
- Hexton Chalk PitWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Fishery 500m north east of Manor Farm3.1 km north
- Cainhoe Castle7.2 km north
- Waulud's Bank7.2 km south-west
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.