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LiDAR map of Thorne
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Thorne, a parish in South Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 11 places recorded in Wikidata, 8 listed buildings, 5 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 canal structures. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m and 3 m above sea level; its highest point is about 14 m.
Thorne 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 Thorne, 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 Thorne. 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 Thorne. 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 5 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Thorne 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 (5 features in the parish) 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
- South Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 47.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 1–3 m above sea level; highest 14 m
- ONS code
- E04000095
Listed buildings
- Church of St Nicholas
- River Don Wharf
- Premises of Richard Law Fruit Shops and Flat Above
- Crimean War Memorial Pump Situated
- Tower Mill Immediately
- The White Hart Inn
- Crimean War Memorial Pump
- Stonegate House
Other recorded places
- Thorne CollieryWikidata place
- Thorne and Hatfield MoorsWikidata place
- South Yorkshire WayWikidata place
- Thorne North railway stationWikidata place
- Maud's Bridge railway stationWikidata place
- Thorne Memorial Park Miniature RailwayWikidata place
- Thorne South railway stationWikidata place
- Thorne Waterside railway stationWikidata place
- ThorneWikidata place
- MoorendsWikidata place
- ThorneWikidata place
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- DECOY PONDAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- COLLIERYAerial survey feature
- Stanilands Covered Drydock (Leased)Canal structure
- Stanilands Drydock (Leased)Canal structure
Nearest places with their own page
- Howden Minster14.3 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.