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LiDAR map of Therfield
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Therfield, a parish in Hertfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 37 recorded places here: 17 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 10 scheduled monuments, 6 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 lost settlement. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 91 m and 153 m above sea level; its highest point is about 170 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 barrows or cairns, 1 long barrow or chambered tomb and 1 motte or ringwork.
Therfield 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 Therfield, 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 Therfield. 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 Therfield. 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 17 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Therfield 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 (17 features in the parish) and the 37 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
- 18.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 37
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 91–153 m above sea level; highest 170 m
- ONS code
- E04004797
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bell barrow: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield HeathScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield HeathScheduled monument
- Earl's Hill bowl barrow: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield HeathScheduled monument
- Long barrow on Therfield HeathScheduled monument
- Pond barrow: one of two round barrows on Pen HillsScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows on Pen HillsScheduled monument
- Five bowl barrows: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield HeathScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows: part of the round barrow cemetery on Therfield HeathScheduled monument
- Mile ditchesScheduled monument
- Motte and bailey castle and associated earthworks 100m south of Tuthill FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Fox CovertWikidata place
- Hawkins WoodWikidata place
- BucklandWikidata place
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RIFLE RANGEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Royston Cave3.3 km north-east
- Arbury Banks7.5 km west
- Anstey Castle8.5 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: 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.