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LiDAR map of Wem Rural
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wem Rural, a parish in Shropshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 14 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 76 m and 99 m above sea level; its highest point is about 122 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 moated sites.
Wem Rural 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 Wem Rural, 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 Wem Rural. 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 Wem Rural. 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 Wem Rural 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 26 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
- Shropshire, England
- Area
- 51.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 76–99 m above sea level; highest 122 m
- ONS code
- E04011379
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Soulton moated site and formal garden remainsScheduled monument
- Moated site 500m south east of Creamore CottageScheduled monument
- Northwood Hall double moated siteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Soulton Hall
- Aston Hall
- Tilley Hall
- The Ditches Hall
- Mulliner Memorial
- Church of King Charles the Martyr
- Payne Memorial
- Limekilns at Ngr
- Limekilns at Ngr
- The Bull and Dog Public House
- Thistleford Bridge
- Aston Bridge
- Wolverley Bridge
Other recorded places
- Soulton Long BarrowWikidata place
- Prees railway stationWikidata place
- Quina BrookWikidata place
- Barkers GreenWikidata place
- Wem RuralWikidata place
- Horton VillaWikidata place
- AstonWikidata place
- CotonWikidata place
- TilleyWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Bury Walls7.7 km south-east
- Moreton Corbet Castle9.5 km south-east
- Ellesmere Castle11.0 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Myddle, Broughton and Harmer Hill
- Clive
- Loppington
- Wem Urban
- Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst
- Weston-under-Redcastle
- Prees
- Whixall
- Welshampton and Lyneal
- Maelor South
- Whitchurch Rural
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.