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LiDAR map of Thurnham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Thurnham, a parish in Lancashire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 50 recorded places here: 25 listed buildings, 14 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 wrecks, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 4 m and 26 m above sea level; its highest point is about 47 m.
Thurnham 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 Thurnham, 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 Thurnham. 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 Thurnham. 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 Thurnham 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 the parish) and the 50 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
- 13.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 50
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–26 m above sea level; highest 47 m
- ONS code
- E04005207
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Glasson DockScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- The Chapter House, Cockersand Abbey
- Ashton Hall
- Thurnham Hall
- Christ Church
- Ashton Hall Gatehouse
- Church of St Thomas and St Elizabeth
- Gillow Mausoleum
- The Dower House, Thurnham Hall
- Former Stable Block
- Stork Hotel, Conder Green
- Chapel at Thurnham Hall
- Cross Approx.
- Custom House
- Victoria Hotel
- Ashton Park Bridge
- Brantbeck Bridge
- Fifth Lock
- Fourth Lock
- Lancaster Canal New Park Bridge New Park Bridge
- Lancaster Canal Carr Lane Bridge
- Sixth Lock
- Burrow Beck Bridge
- Third Lock
- Boundary Stone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Lancashire Coastal WayWikidata place
- Ashton Hall railway stationWikidata place
- Conder Green railway stationWikidata place
- Glasson DockWikidata place
- Ashton with StoddayWikidata place
- ThurnhamWikidata place
- ROADBLOCKAerial survey feature
- ROADBLOCKAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- OBSERVATION POSTAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cockersand Abbey2.9 km south-west
- Skerton Bridge7.7 km north
- High cross in St Wilfrid's churchyard, Halton10.7 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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.