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LiDAR map of Cople
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cople, a parish in Bedfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 35 recorded places here: 27 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 scheduled monuments, 2 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 22 m and 46 m above sea level; its highest point is about 74 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Cople 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 Cople, 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 Cople. 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 Cople. 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 27 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cople 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 (27 features in the parish) and the 35 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
- 8.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 35
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 22–46 m above sea level; highest 74 m
- ONS code
- E04011886
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Two barrows 500m NE of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexScheduled monument
- Three barrows and a rectilinear enclosure 1000m NNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexScheduled monument
- Mortuary enclosure 900m NNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexScheduled monument
- A barrow 400m north of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Cople PitsWikidata place
- CopleWikidata place
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- SUBRECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SQUARE ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- MOATAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SUB CIRCULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Eastcotts Castle3.6 km south
- Renhold Castle3.6 km north
- Wardon Abbey4.1 km south
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.