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LiDAR map of Leicester
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Leicester, Leicestershire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 289 recorded places here: 165 listed buildings, 91 places recorded in Wikidata, 15 lost settlements, 9 scheduled monuments, 4 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Leicester lies between about 55 m and 95 m above sea level; its highest point is about 112 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 bridges, 2 moated sites, 2 monastic sites and 1 Roman site.
Leicester 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 Leicester, 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 Leicester. 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 Leicester. 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 Leicester 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 289 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
- Leicestershire, England
- Area
- 73.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 289
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 55–95 m above sea level; highest 112 m
- ONS code
- E43000015
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Abbey ParkRegistered park or garden
- Greyfriars, LeicesterScheduled monument
- Saffron Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- The 'Roman' bridge, AylestoneScheduled monument
- The Raw Dykes Roman aqueductScheduled monument
- Moated site at New Parks, LeicesterScheduled monument
- Moated site with fishponds at EvingtonScheduled monument
- 'King William's' Bridge See also LEICESTERSHIRE 195Scheduled monument
- Leicester abbey and 17th century mansion and ornamental gardensScheduled monument
- Victoria Park, LeicesterRegistered park or garden
- 'King William's' Bridge See also LEICESTER 195Scheduled monument
- Preceptory, boundary, two mounds, fishpond and dam at Beaumont LeysScheduled monument
- Welford Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- RataeAncient place (Pleiades)
- Norfolk StreetAncient place (Pleiades)
- Jewry WallAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Jewry Wall
- Magazine Gateway
- Turret Gateway
- The Arch of Remembrance
- The Guildhall
- Church of St Mary De Castro
- Former County Court and remains of castle
- Church of St James the Greater
- St Martin's Cathedral
- Engineering Building, University of Leicester
- Town Hall
- Corn Exchange
- Old Grammar School
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Church of St Nicholas
- Central Baptist Church
- The City Rooms and basement area railings
- Aylestone Hall
- Skeffington House, Newarke Houses Museum
- Former Church of All Saints
- Abbey Ruins
- Church of St Margaret
- Bishop Street Methodist Chapel
- Clarendon Park Congregational Church
- Remains of Cavendish House
- The Gate House
- Abbey Pumping Station
- The Secular Hall
- The High Cross
- De Montfort Hall
and 135 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- HM Prison LeicesterWikidata place
- Leicester PrideWikidata place
- Taylor HobsonWikidata place
- Gipsy Lane PitWikidata place
- Baitul Ikram MosqueWikidata place
- St Matthew's Church, LeicesterWikidata place
- Holy Cross Priory, LeicesterWikidata place
- Leicester Friars of the SackWikidata place
- St Patrick's Catholic Church, LeicesterWikidata place
- Umar MosqueWikidata place
- Welford Road StadiumWikidata place
- University of LeicesterWikidata place
- Humber stoneWikidata place
- The World TreeWikidata place
- Little Theatre, LeicesterWikidata place
- Riverside Business and Enterprise CollegeWikidata place
- Aylestone MeadowsWikidata place
- Attenborough Arts CentreWikidata place
- Leicester ArenaWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Greyfriars, Leicester480 m south-west
- Raw Dykes2.1 km south
- Kirby Muxloe Castle6.5 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Oadby and Wigston
- Stoughton
- Glen Parva
- Enderby
- Braunstone
- Leicester Forest East
- Kirby Muxloe
- Glenfields
- Thurnby and Bushby
- Scraptoft
- Hamilton Lea
- Barkby Thorpe
- Thurmaston
- Birstall
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.