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LiDAR map of Boston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Boston, Lincolnshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 88 recorded places here: 72 listed buildings, 12 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments, 1 registered park or garden, 1 canal structure. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Boston lies between about 2 m and 4 m above sea level; its highest point is about 19 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 moated site.
Boston 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 Boston, 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 Boston. 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 Boston. 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 Boston 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 88 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
- Lincolnshire, England
- Area
- 13.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 88
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–4 m above sea level; highest 19 m
- ONS code
- E43000109
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hussey TowerScheduled monument
- Boston CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Moated site 480m north east of Wyberton West HospitalScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Boston Sessions House
- Maud Foster Windmill and Granary
- Blackfriars Arts Centre
- Parish Church of St Botolph
- Skirbeck Quarter War Memorial
- Guildhall
- Skirbeck Hall
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Centenary Methodist Church
- Freemasons' Hall
- Exchange Buildings, 36-39 Market Place
- The Assembly Rooms
- Shodfriars Hall
- Boston Defined Area Survey; 3, 5, 7 and 9 Spain
- The King's Arms
- The Customs House
- Trustee Savings Bank
- Maud Foster Drain and Walls and Steps and Railings
- Maud Foster Sluice
- The Starlight Room and entrance block
- Baptist Chapel and Schoolroom
- Church of St Thomas
- Unitarian Church
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Church House, 1 Wormgate
- Ship Tavern
- The Golden Lion Public House
- The Robin Hood Public House
- Memorial in Baptist Chapel Forecourt
- The Midland Bank
and 42 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Municipal Buildings, BostonWikidata place
- Boston CemeteryWikidata place
- Boston CollegeWikidata place
- Witham Way Country ParkWikidata place
- Kitwood Boys SchoolWikidata place
- River WithamWikidata place
- Boston railway stationWikidata place
- St Thomas'Wikidata place
- Skirbeck QuarterWikidata place
- StanilandWikidata place
- WithamWikidata place
- BostonWikidata place
- Tidal WharfCanal structure
Nearest places with their own page
- Hussey Tower740 m north-east
- Swineshead Abbey8.0 km west
- Sibsey Trader Mill8.0 km north
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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.