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LiDAR map of Melbourn
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Melbourn, a parish in Cambridgeshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 58 recorded places here: 36 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 13 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 22 m and 66 m above sea level; its highest point is about 106 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 barrows or cairns.
Melbourn 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 Melbourn, 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 Melbourn. 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 Melbourn. 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 36 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Melbourn 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 (36 features in the parish) and the 58 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
- 17.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 58
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 22–66 m above sea level; highest 106 m
- ONS code
- E04001825
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow on Goffers KnollScheduled monument
- MelbournAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Causewayed enclosure and two ring ditches 140m south-east of New FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow, known as Grinnel Hill, 260m SSE of Lodge CottageScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 205m SSE of Lodge CottageScheduled monument
- Prehistoric barrow cemetery and cross dyke in Five Hill Field, 290m south west of Heath FarmScheduled monument
- Square barrow 170m north east of Summer House FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of All Saints
- The Manor House
- Melbourn War Memorial
- Milestone at Junction of A505 and B1368
- Melbourn United Reformed Church
- Pink Geranium Restaurant
- Sheene Mill
- Fire Engine House
- The Maltings
- Two Headstones and Footstones
- Bridge near Sheene Mill
- Milestone Outside Number 106
- Millside
Other recorded places
- Melbourn Science ParkWikidata place
- MelbournWikidata place
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
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- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
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- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Royston Cave3.8 km south-west
- Shingay Preceptory8.2 km north-west
- Anstey Castle10.6 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.