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LiDAR map of Helpston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Helpston, a parish in Cambridgeshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 13 recorded places here: 10 listed buildings, 1 scheduled monument, 1 Wikidata place, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 9 m and 34 m above sea level; its highest point is about 48 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site.
Helpston 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 Helpston, 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 Helpston. 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 Helpston. 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 Helpston 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 13 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
- Cambridgeshire, England
- Area
- 7.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 13
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 9–34 m above sea level; highest 48 m
- ONS code
- E04001110
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Roman villa N of Oxey WoodScheduled monument
- HelpstonAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Market Cross
- Clare Cottage
- Church of St Botolph
- Lolham Bridges
- Blue Bell Public House
- The Feathers
- Church House
- Exeter Arms Public House
- Railway Goods Shed 250 Yards South
- Bridge Over South Drain
Other recorded places
- Helpston railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Longthorpe Tower7.7 km south-east
- Durobrivae8.0 km south
- St Leonard's Priory, Stamford8.7 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.