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LiDAR map of Dunstable
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Dunstable, a parish in Bedfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 31 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 138 m and 174 m above sea level; its highest point is about 220 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 monastic site and 1 barrow or cairn.
Dunstable 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 Dunstable, 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 Dunstable. 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 Dunstable. 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 Dunstable 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 31 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
- 9.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 31
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 138–174 m above sea level; highest 220 m
- ONS code
- E04012806
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Dunstable PrioryScheduled monument
- Five Knolls round barrow cemetery: three bell barrows, two bowl barrows and two pond barrows on Dunstable DownScheduled monument
- A medieval warren on Dunstable DownsScheduled monument
- DurocobrivisAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Marshe Almshouses
- Priory House
- Chew's House
- Icknield Street
- Methodist Church, The Square
- Union Social Club
- The Plume of Feathers Public House
- Former Baptist Chapel
- Strict Baptist Chapel
- Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
- The Borough Arms
- Kingsbury Court Old Palace Lodge Hotel
- Outbuilding of the Old Sugar Loaf Hotel
- Former Dunstable Grammar School
- Cart Almshouses
- The Old Sugar Loaf Inn
- The White Swan Public House
- Windmill
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Blow's DownWikidata place
- Sewell CuttingWikidata place
- Lancot MeadowWikidata place
- California BallroomWikidata place
- Central Bedfordshire CollegeWikidata place
- Weatherfield AcademyWikidata place
- Dunstable North railway stationWikidata place
- Grove TheatreWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Dunstable Priory240 m north-east
- Maiden Bower hillfort2.3 km west
- Totternhoe Roman villa3.1 km west
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.