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LiDAR map of Thorney
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Thorney, a parish in Cambridgeshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 38 recorded places here: 16 listed buildings, 14 scheduled monuments, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about -0 m and 2 m above sea level; its highest point is about 9 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 9 barrows or cairns, 3 Roman sites, 1 cross and 1 field system.
Thorney 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 Thorney, 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 Thorney. 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 Thorney. 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 Thorney 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 38 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
- 88.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 38
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly -0–2 m above sea level; highest 9 m
- ONS code
- E04001121
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow immediately north east of Bank FarmScheduled monument
- St Vincent's CrossScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 620m north east of East Wryde CottagesScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 490m west of Gores FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 730m WSW of Gores FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 780m east of Bar Pasture FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 430m north east of Prior's Fen FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 225m north east of Prior's Fen FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 880m south west of Singlecote CottageScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 940m south east of Bar Pasture FarmScheduled monument
- A Bronze Age post alignment and timber platform at Flag Fen and associated Bronze Age and later field systems and settlement to either side of the Northey RoadScheduled monument
- Roman drove, enclosures and building platform at Chestnut FarmScheduled monument
- Roman field system and drove at Pode Hole FarmScheduled monument
- Iron Age and Roman settlement at Bar PasturesScheduled monument
- Flag FenAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Thorney Abbey and Abbey House
- Church of St Mary and St Botolph
- Gatepiers North North
- Gatepiers North North
- Churchyard Wall Church of St Mary and St Botolph
- St Vincent's Cross
- Abbey Close
- Number 11
- Remains of Cross
- Bridge Immediately
- Windmill
- Bridge
and 4 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Crowland Abbey7.1 km north-west
- Trinity Bridge7.3 km north-west
- Peterborough Castle11.0 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Whittlesey
- Peterborough
- Eye
- Newborough
- Wisbech St. Mary
- Holbeach
- Parson Drove
- Crowland
- Sutton St Edmund
- Gedney Hill
- Fleet
- Whaplode
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.