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LiDAR map of Birmingham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Birmingham, West Midlands, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 1,041 recorded places here: 515 listed buildings, 478 places recorded in Wikidata, 23 canal structures, 12 registered parks and gardens, 10 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Birmingham lies between about 97 m and 174 m above sea level; its highest point is about 250 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 moated sites, 1 castle, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 bridge.
Birmingham 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 Birmingham, 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 Birmingham. 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 Birmingham. 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 Birmingham 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 1,041 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
- West Midlands, England
- Area
- 208.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 1,041
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 97–174 m above sea level; highest 250 m
- ONS code
- E43000250
Places with their own page
- /places/burnt-mound-in-fox-hollies-park/
- /places/perry-bridge/
- /places/weoley-castle/
- /places/kings-norton-stop-lock/
- /places/metchley-fort/
- /places/king-s-standing-bowl-barrow/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Key Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Birmingham Botanical GardensRegistered park or garden
- Weoley CastleScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow at King's StandingScheduled monument
- Burnt mound in Fox Hollies Park, 140m south east of Round PoolScheduled monument
- Cannon Hill ParkRegistered park or garden
- Perry BridgeScheduled monument
- Burnt mounds at Moseley Bog, 380m north east of Moseley New PoolScheduled monument
- Roman forts at MetchleyScheduled monument
- Hawkesley Farm moated siteScheduled monument
- Kent's MoatScheduled monument
- Burnt mounds in Woodlands Park, 540m and 640m west of The PavilionScheduled monument
- The de Birmingham moated site, the seat of the medieval Lords of BirminghamScheduled monument
- Handsworth ParkRegistered park or garden
- Warstone Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Highbury HallRegistered park or garden
- Westbourne Road Town GardensRegistered park or garden
- Edgbaston HallRegistered park or garden
- The Vale, EdgbastonRegistered park or garden
- Brandwood End CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Witton CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Winterbourne Botanic GardenRegistered park or garden
- Metchley FortAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Town Hall
- Mortuary Chapel at Handsworth Cemetery
- Hall of Memory
- Victoria Law Courts
- The Barber Institute at Birmingham University
- The Homestead
- Aston Hall
- Methodist Central Hall
- The Argent Centre
- The Grand Hotel
- Parish Church of the Ascension
- Holy Trinity Church
- Church of St Alban the Martyr
- Bishop Latimer Memorial Church of All Saints
- Public Library
- Balsall Heath Library and Balsall Heath Public
- The Old Crown Public House
- The Bartons Arms Public House
- Chamberlain Tower
- Ladypool Primary School
- Coffin Furniture Works
- Boer War Memorial, Cannon Hill Park
- Friends' Institute Building, 220 Moseley Road
- Sheldon Hall
- Blakesley Hall
- Highbury Hall
- Soho House
- Stratford House
- Icknield Street School
- The Anchorage
and 485 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- HM Prison BirminghamWikidata place
- Battle of Kings NortonWikidata place
- Eurovision Song Contest 1998Wikidata place
- Arena BirminghamWikidata place
- Birmingham Union workhouseWikidata place
- Battle of Camp HillWikidata place
- Battle of Saltley GateWikidata place
- Birmingham SuperprixWikidata place
- murder of Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene EllisWikidata place
- Aston ArenaWikidata place
- Hockley TunnelsWikidata place
- murder of Thomas BatesWikidata place
- Omega SektorWikidata place
- Hay Mills Rotor StationWikidata place
- Hamstead CollieryWikidata place
- Snow Hill TunnelWikidata place
- Wast Hills TunnelWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Perry Bridge4.8 km north
- Metchley Fort4.9 km south-west
- Engine Arm Aqueduct5.6 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Bromsgrove
- Alvechurch
- Cofton Hackett
- Dudley
- Bickenhill and Marston Green
- Wythall
- Solihull
- Sutton Coldfield
- Fordbridge
- Kingshurst
- Castle Bromwich
- New Frankley in Birmingham
- Frankley
- Sandwell
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Plaques: Open Plaques, public domain.
Last updated 2026-10-16.