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LiDAR map of Wirral
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wirral, Merseyside, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 529 recorded places here: 209 listed buildings, 185 places recorded in Wikidata, 124 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 scheduled monuments, 3 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Wirral lies between about 5 m and 58 m above sea level; its highest point is about 112 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 moated sites, 1 monastic site and 1 church or chapel.
Wirral 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 Wirral, 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 Wirral. 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 Wirral. 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 124 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Wirral 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 (124 features in this area) and the 529 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
- 160.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 529
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–58 m above sea level; highest 112 m
- ONS code
- E43000169
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden
- Grounds of Thornton ManorRegistered park or garden
- LandicanAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Bromborough Court House moated site and fishponds, WirralScheduled monument
- Flaybrick Memorial GardensRegistered park or garden
- Grange Beacon, Column Road, HoylakeScheduled monument
- Site of church and churchyard at Overchurch 875m north west of Upton HallScheduled monument
- Moated site 400m north east of New HallScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Brimstage Hall and Tower
- Port Sunlight War Memorial
- Remains of Birkenhead Priory
- Fort Perch Rock
- Birkenhead War Memorial
- Storeton Hall
- Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial
- Bidston Windmill
- Thornton Manor
- Christ Church
- Gayton Hall
- Church of St Andrew
- Thurstaston Hall
- Hill Bark
- Bidston Hall
- Leasowe Castle
- Church of St Barnabas
- Numbers 1 to 18
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Numbers 51 to 57
- Irby Hall
- Christ Church
- Church of Christ the King
- Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady
- Trinity with Palm Grove United Reformed Church
- Christ Church
- Church of St Paul with St Luke
- Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea
- Manor Church Centre
- Hoylake Chapel
and 179 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Birkenhead Priory4.0 km north-east
- Robin Hood's Stone10.9 km east
- The Calder Stones11.3 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Plaques: Open Plaques, public domain.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.