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LiDAR map of St. Helens
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of St. Helens, Merseyside, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 97 recorded places here: 46 listed buildings, 43 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 3 registered parks and gardens, 1 aerial survey feature. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in St. Helens lies between about 27 m and 65 m above sea level; its highest point is about 88 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn, 1 industrial site and 1 moated site.
St. Helens 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 St. Helens, 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 St. Helens. 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 St. Helens. 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 1 aerial survey feature in the area. More about this map
See St. Helens 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 (1 feature in this area) and the 97 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
- Merseyside, England
- Area
- 63.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 97
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 27–65 m above sea level; highest 88 m
- ONS code
- E43000278
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Castle Hill motte and bailey and bowl barrowScheduled monument
- Cannington Shaw Bottle Shop, Sherdley WorksScheduled monument
- St Anne's WellScheduled monument
- Borough Cemetery, St HelensRegistered park or garden
- Landscape associated with the former PilkingtonsRegistered park or garden
- Micklehead Green moated siteScheduled monument
- Taylor ParkRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Statue of Queen Victoria
- Ruins of Windleshaw Abbey in Roman Catholic
- Church of Holy Cross and Saint Helen
- Church of St Mary, Lowe House
- Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works
- Church of St Helen
- Church of St John Evangelist
- Earlestown Town Hall
- Eccleston Hall
- Sherdley Hall Farmhouse
- Entrance Archway to Cancello
- Huskisson Memorial
- Church of St Peter
- St Helens Quaker Meeting House
- Church of All Saints
- Church of Saint Mary and Saint John
- Sutton Oak Welsh Chapel
- Part of Numbers 96 and 98 Former Windmill Tower
- Beechams Clock Tower and offices
- Grotto by Lake
- Reflection Court, the former Pilkington's HQ
- South African War Memorial
- The Wheatsheaf
- The Miner or The Anderton Mining Monument, St
- Bridge Over Railway
- Bridge Over Railway
- Newton Le Willows Station
- Earlestown Station Building
- St Helens Junction Station
- United Reformed Chapel
and 16 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Parkside CollieryWikidata place
- The BurgiesWikidata place
- St Helens HospitalWikidata place
- Church of St James the Great, HaydockWikidata place
- St John the Baptist's Church, EarlestownWikidata place
- St Helens power stationWikidata place
- Rainhill HospitalWikidata place
- Red Bank secure unitWikidata place
- Newton Community HospitalWikidata place
- Carr Mill DamWikidata place
- Citadel Arts CentreWikidata place
- Haydock Park RacecourseWikidata place
- BrewDog StadiumWikidata place
- Sherdley ParkWikidata place
- St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic High SchoolWikidata place
- Stanley Bank MeadowWikidata place
- Sutton Mill DamWikidata place
- EarlestownWikidata place
- Thatto Heath railway stationWikidata place
- Peasley Cross railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Upholland Priory9.9 km north
- Warrington Transporter Bridge10.9 km south-east
- West Derby Castle12.2 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Bold
- Burtonwood and Westbrook
- Seneley Green
- Billinge Chapel End
- Winwick
- Croft
- Wigan
- Rainhill
- Eccleston
- Windle
- Rainford
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.