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LiDAR map of Cheshire West and Chester
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 451 recorded places here: 249 listed buildings, 107 Roman inscriptions, 60 places recorded in Wikidata, 22 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Cheshire West and Chester lies between about 5 m and 44 m above sea level; its highest point is about 72 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 monastic site and 1 industrial site.
Cheshire West and Chester 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 Cheshire West and Chester, 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 Cheshire West and Chester. 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 Cheshire West and Chester. 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 22 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cheshire West and Chester 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 (22 features in this area) and the 451 recorded places in this area, 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
- Cheshire, England
- Area
- 78.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 451
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–44 m above sea level; highest 72 m
- ONS code
- E43000272
Places with their own page
- /places/chester-roman-amphitheatre/
- /places/burton-point/
- /places/stanlow-abbey/
- /places/st-nicholas-chapel-chester/
- /places/chester-city-walls/
- /places/minerva-s-shrine-chester/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Grosvenor ParkRegistered park or garden
- Burton PointAtlas of Hillforts entry
- The walls, towers, gates and posterns of the City of ChesterScheduled monument
- Overleigh Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Stanlaw Abbey Cistercian monastery and monastic grange, Stanlow PointScheduled monument
- St Andrew's medieval hospital and limekiln, DenhallScheduled monument
- Burton ManorRegistered park or garden
- Roman amphitheater at DevaAncient place (Pleiades)
- DevaAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Remains of Roman Amphitheatre
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Thimblebys Tower
- Bonewaldesthorne Tower
- Barnabys Tower
- Abbey Gateway
- The Bridgegate
- The Watergate
- The Northgate
- Roman Shrine to Minerva
- Phoenix Tower
- Kaleyard Gate
- Bear and Billet Public House
- St Marys Centre
- Chester Weir and Salmon Leap
- Pembertons Parlour
- Morgans Mount
- Recorders Steps
- Unnamed Drum Tower
- Chester Leadworks and Shot Tower
- Oddfellows Hall
- The Old Kings Head Hotel
- Chester College Chapel
- Walmoor House
- The Georgian House
- Shipgate House
- Sedan House
- Watergate House
- Willaston Old Hall
and 219 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Siege of ChesterWikidata place
- Saltney Railway Station, SaltneyCoflein record
- Cheshire Oaks ArenaWikidata place
- Mount ManistyWikidata place
- Chester General rail crashWikidata place
- Curzon Park AbbeyWikidata place
- St Columba's Church, ChesterWikidata place
- Wirral PeninsulaWikidata place
- Ellesmere Port Council OfficesWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Stanlow Abbey4.5 km east
- Shotwick Hall6.4 km south-west
- Ince Manor6.5 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Huntington
- Eaton and Eccleston
- Dodleston
- Saltney
- Chester Castle
- Great Boughton
- Guilden Sutton
- Mickle Trafford and District
- Thornton-le-Moors
- Elton
- Ince
- Frodsham
- Bache
- Sealand
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.