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LiDAR map of Freeby
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Freeby, a parish in Leicestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 19 recorded places here: 8 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 lost settlements, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 82 m and 123 m above sea level; its highest point is about 140 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 crosses, 1 moated site and 1 deserted village.
Freeby 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 Freeby, 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 Freeby. 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 Freeby. 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 Freeby 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 19 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
- Leicestershire, England
- Area
- 26.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 19
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 82–123 m above sea level; highest 140 m
- ONS code
- E04005525
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Moated site and fishpond at WyfordbyScheduled monument
- Wyfordby Wayside CrossScheduled monument
- Cross 160m north east of St Mary Magdalen ChurchScheduled monument
- Stapleford deserted medieval village and ice houseScheduled monument
- Stapleford HallRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Stapleford Hall
- Church of St Mary Magdalen
- Church of St Mary
- Church of St Peter
- Stable Range at Stapleford Hall
- Former Church of St Mary
- Slaughter House
- The Eye Bridge
Other recorded places
- Saxby railway stationWikidata place
- Stapleford Miniature RailwayWikidata place
- StaplefordWikidata place
- Brentingby SK784198 Deserted Medieval VillageLost settlement
- Stapleford SK813183 Deserted Medieval VillageLost settlement
- Wyfordby SK792189 Deserted Medieval Village<ref>Ed Hurst JG and Beresford MWLost settlement
Nearest places with their own page
- Burrough Hill8.2 km south-west
- Kirby Bellars Priory8.8 km west
- Oakham Castle11.4 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Somerby
- Burton and Dalby
- Melton
- Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold
- Whissendine
- Wymondham
- Garthorpe
- Sproxton
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.