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LiDAR map of Bletsoe
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bletsoe, a parish in Bedfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 19 recorded places here: 14 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 5 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 47 m and 88 m above sea level; its highest point is about 92 m.
Bletsoe 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 Bletsoe, 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 Bletsoe. 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 Bletsoe. 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 14 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Bletsoe 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 (14 features in the parish) and the 19 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
- 9.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 19
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 47–88 m above sea level; highest 92 m
- ONS code
- E04011878
Listed buildings
- Bletsoe Castle
- Bridge Over Bletsoe Castle Moat
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- The Old School and School House
- The Falcon Inn
Other recorded places
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- POLYGONAL ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- AMMUNITION DUMPAerial survey feature
- AMMUNITION DUMPAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Thurleigh Castle2.5 km east
- Yielden Castle8.0 km north
- Bushmead Priory9.0 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.