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LiDAR map of Lancaster
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Lancaster, Lancashire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 189 recorded places here: 125 listed buildings, 38 places recorded in Wikidata, 14 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 Roman inscriptions, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Lancaster lies between about 6 m and 66 m above sea level; its highest point is about 114 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 cross.
Lancaster 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 Lancaster, 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 Lancaster. 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 Lancaster. 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 14 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Lancaster 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 (14 features in this area) and the 189 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
- Lancashire, England
- Area
- 23.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 189
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–66 m above sea level; highest 114 m
- ONS code
- E43000253
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- High cross in St Peter's churchyard, HeyshamScheduled monument
- Lancaster CastleAncient place (Pleiades)
- LancasterAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Lancaster Castle
- Ashton Memorial
- The war memorial, Westfield War Memorial Village
- Royal Albert Hospital
- Friends Meeting House
- Town Hall
- Queen Victoria Memorial
- Priory and Parish Church of St Mary
- Northern Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery
- Christ Church
- Church of St John the Divine
- Western Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery
- The Judges' Lodgings, Attached Forecourt, Steps
- Crimea Monument in Lancaster Cemetery
- Chapel of Ripley St Thomas School
- Eastern Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery
- Church of St Michael, Moor Hospital
- Cathedral Church of St Peter
- Church of St John
- City Museum, the Old Town Hall
- Ring O' Bells Public House
- Penny's Almshouses
- The Old Hall Inn
- Maritime Museum
- Conservative Club
- National Westminster Bank
- Perimeter Walls and Gateway of Roman Catholic
- Moor Hospital, Blocks 40,41,42,44 and 46
- The Barracks, White Cross
- Bier and Twist
and 95 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- HM Prison Lancaster FarmsWikidata place
- Lancaster Roman FortWikidata place
- Bowerham BarracksWikidata place
- Royal Lancaster InfirmaryWikidata place
- The Ruskin - Library, Museum and Research CentreWikidata place
- Heysham nuclear power stationsWikidata place
- Lancaster Medical SchoolWikidata place
- Lancaster Moor HospitalWikidata place
- Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary ArtsWikidata place
- University of LancasterWikidata place
- Greaves ParkWikidata place
- Lancaster Arts at Lancaster UniversityWikidata place
- Pendle College, LancasterWikidata place
- Bowland College, LancasterWikidata place
- Furness College, LancasterWikidata place
- Fylde College, LancasterWikidata place
- Grizedale College, LancasterWikidata place
- Lancaster Environment CentreWikidata place
- Lancaster University Chaplaincy CentreWikidata place
- Lancaster University Management SchoolWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Skerton Bridge2.1 km north
- High cross in St Wilfrid's churchyard, Halton5.0 km north-east
- Cockersand Abbey8.1 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Ellel
- Thurnham
- Scotforth
- Aldcliffe-with-Stodday
- Heaton-with-Oxcliffe
- Morecambe
- Slyne-with-Hest
- Middleton
- Quernmore
- Halton-with-Aughton
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.