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LiDAR map of Lea
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Lea, a parish in Lancashire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 20 recorded places here: 9 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 28 m above sea level; its highest point is about 34 m.
Lea 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 Lea, 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 Lea. 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 Lea. 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 9 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Lea 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 (9 features in the parish) and the 20 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
- Lancashire, England
- Area
- 8.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 20
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–28 m above sea level; highest 34 m
- ONS code
- E04005239
Listed buildings
- Old Lea Hall Farmhouse
- Cross on Corner at Junction with Lea Lane
- Canal Bridge Number 18
- Canal Bridge Number 19 Quaker's Bridge
- Canal Bridge Number 17 Valentine House Bridge
Other recorded places
- Tulketh PrioryWikidata place
- Savick BrookWikidata place
- Lea Road railway stationWikidata place
- Ribble LinkWikidata place
- CottamWikidata place
- LeaWikidata place
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- SEARCHLIGHT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- GARDENAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Penwortham Castle3.8 km south-east
- Penwortham Bridge4.6 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.