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LiDAR map of Overton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Overton, a parish in Lancashire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 12 recorded places here: 5 listed buildings, 4 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 wreck. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 4 m and 13 m above sea level; its highest point is about 36 m.
Overton 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 Overton, 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 Overton. 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 Overton. 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 4 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Overton 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 (4 features in the parish) 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
- Lancashire, England
- Area
- 9.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 12
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–13 m above sea level; highest 36 m
- ONS code
- E04005198
Listed buildings
- Church of St. Helen
- Old Custom House
- Quay Marker Stone Outside Number 20
- Mission Church, Sunderland Point
- Remains of Cross Approx.
Other recorded places
- Sambo's GraveWikidata place
- OvertonWikidata place
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- WRECKAerial survey feature
- Wreck showing any portion of hull or superstructureWreck
Nearest places with their own page
- Cockersand Abbey3.6 km south
- Skerton Bridge6.6 km north-east
- High cross in St Wilfrid's churchyard, Halton9.6 km north-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.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.