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LiDAR map of Watford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Watford, Hertfordshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 86 recorded places here: 46 listed buildings, 39 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Watford lies between about 57 m and 95 m above sea level; its highest point is about 105 m.
Watford 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 Watford, 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 Watford. 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 Watford. 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 Watford 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 86 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
- Hertfordshire, England
- Area
- 21.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 86
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 57–95 m above sea level; highest 105 m
- ONS code
- E43000082
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cassiobury ParkRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Holy Rood Church
- Church of St Mary
- The Palace Theatre
- Watford Town Hall
- Watford Peace Memorial
- Little Cassiobury and former stable block to rear.
- Cassio Bridge Lodge
- The Mrs Elizabeth Fuller Free School
- Frogmore House
- Church of St Andrew
- Beechen Grove Baptist Chapel
- Church of St Matthew
- Church of St John
- Watford Museum
- Shipton/finch Tomb
- National Westminster Bank
- Watford Station
- Chapel of Former London Orphan Asylum
- Church of St Michael
- Church of All Saints
- The Baptist Tabernacle
- Leavesden Road Baptist Church
- The One Crown Public House
- Iron Railings in Front of Benskin's Brewery Site
- The Bandstand
- Sikh Community Centre
- Clutterbuck Tomb
- Dalton/guest Tomb
- Morison Tomb
- Deacon Stracy Tomb
and 16 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Watford TunnelsWikidata place
- Watford rail crashWikidata place
- Stanborough Park ChurchWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- The More4.8 km south-west
- Kings Langley Palace5.9 km north-west
- Sulloniacis8.1 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Watford Rural
- Hertsmere
- Aldenham
- Hertsmere Meriden
- Batchworth
- Croxley Green
- Sarratt
- Abbots Langley
- St Stephen
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.