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LiDAR map of Houghton Conquest
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Houghton Conquest, a parish in Bedfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 17 recorded places here: 7 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 36 m and 84 m above sea level; its highest point is about 115 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 long barrow or chambered tomb, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 moated site.
Houghton Conquest 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 Houghton Conquest, 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 Houghton Conquest. 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 Houghton Conquest. 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 7 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Houghton Conquest 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 (7 features in the parish) and the 17 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
- 13.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 17
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 36–84 m above sea level; highest 115 m
- ONS code
- E04012807
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Long barrow 350m south east of Bury FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 500m south east of Bury FarmScheduled monument
- Moated site and two fishponds at The RectoryScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows, Houghton ConquestWikidata place
- National Institute for Research into AquaticWikidata place
- Forest of Marston ValeWikidata place
- Houghton ConquestWikidata place
- How EndWikidata place
- ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORYAerial survey feature
- LAND ARMY HOSTELAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- DECOY PONDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- St Marys Church, Clophill5.6 km south-east
- Ruxox Cell5.9 km south
- Eastcotts Castle6.0 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.