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LiDAR map of Biggleswade
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Biggleswade, a parish in Bedfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 29 recorded places here: 18 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 27 m and 46 m above sea level; its highest point is about 86 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns, 1 moated site, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 Roman site.
Biggleswade 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 Biggleswade, 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 Biggleswade. 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 Biggleswade. 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 Biggleswade 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 29 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
- Bedfordshire, England
- Area
- 18.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 29
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 27–46 m above sea level; highest 86 m
- ONS code
- E04011931
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Stratton Park moated enclosure and associated manorial earthworksScheduled monument
- A ringwork and bailey castle, ring ditch and enclosures east of Brookland FarmScheduled monument
- Cursus and five associated ring-ditches at Biggleswade CommonScheduled monument
- Bronze Age Round Barrow and Later Settlement on Biggleswade CommonScheduled monument
- Probable Romano-Celtic Temple and Aligned Enclosures at Biggleswade CommonScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Andrew
- Biggleswade Mill
- Cemetery Chapels
- New Inn
- North Block of Conservative Club
- White Hart Public House
- Railway Platform Building at Biggleswade Station
- Trinity Methodist Church
- Former White Horse Inn
- Crown Hotel
- Golden Pheasant Public House
- Main Block of Conservative Club
- Coach and Horses Public House
- New Spring Water Pumping Station, Engine House
- Red Lion Public House
- Old Court Offices
- Market House
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Ivel Valley SchoolWikidata place
- Stratton Park Moated EnclosureWikidata place
- Biggleswade Urban DistrictWikidata place
- Shortmead HouseWikidata place
- HolmeWikidata place
- BiggleswadeWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Sutton Packhorse Bridge3.8 km north-east
- Old Warden Castle6.7 km west
- Arbury Banks7.9 km south-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.