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LiDAR map of Formby
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Formby, a parish in Merseyside, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 32 recorded places here: 10 listed buildings, 10 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 wrecks. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 4 m and 12 m above sea level; its highest point is about 26 m.
Formby 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 Formby, 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 Formby. 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 Formby. 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 10 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Formby 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 (10 features in the parish) and the 32 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
- Merseyside, England
- Area
- 22.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 32
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–12 m above sea level; highest 26 m
- ONS code
- E04000038
Listed buildings
- Formby Hall
- Dovecote
- Tower House and Tower Grange
- Church of St Peter
- Church of St Luke
- Former Convent of Our Lady
- Stone Cross in Centre of Roundabout
- Old Village Stocks
- Cross
- Sundial
Other recorded places
- Royal Air Force Station WoodvaleWikidata place
- Formby Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- Freshfield railway stationWikidata place
- Formby railway stationWikidata place
- Formby HallWikidata place
- FormbyWikidata place
- FreshfieldWikidata place
- HaringtonWikidata place
- Formby Golf ClubWikidata place
- BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS SITEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY AIRFIELDAerial survey feature
- TRENCHAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- FIRING RANGEAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- OBSERVATION POSTAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Burscough Priory13.7 km 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.