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LiDAR map of Falmouth
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Falmouth, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 85 recorded places here: 59 listed buildings, 15 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 7 m and 62 m above sea level; its highest point is about 103 m.
Falmouth 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 Falmouth, 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 Falmouth. 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 Falmouth. 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 15 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Falmouth 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 (15 features in the parish) and the 85 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
- Cornwall, England
- Area
- 8.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 85
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 7–62 m above sea level; highest 103 m
- ONS code
- E04013058
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Jewish and Congregationalist cemeteries at PonshardenScheduled monument
- Falmouth General CemeteryRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Pendennis Castle
- The Storehouse, Pendennis Castle
- Church of King Charles the Martyr the Church
- Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis Castle
- The Old Town Hall
- The Barrack Block, Pendennis Castle
- Church of All Saints
- Arwenack House Arwenack Manor
- Polytechnic Hall
- The Penmore Manor Hotel
- Custom House and Rear Courtyard Walls
- Marlborough House
- Church of St Michael
- The Presbytery to the Roman Catholic Church of St
- Former Town Hall
- The Fountain
- The Packet Monument
- Entrance Gateway Walls to the Penmere Manor Hotel
- Warehouse and Quay Walls at Rear of No.38
- Steps Wall and Railings North
- Falmouth Hotel Mariners
- The Seven Stars Public House
- Kimberley Park War Memorial
- Marlborough St Jude
- The Old Jewish Synagogue
- The Chapel
- Steps and Walls
- United Reformed Church
- Former Falmouth Central Methodist Church
- Falmouth School of Art Rosehill
and 29 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Falmouth DocksWikidata place
- Gyllyngvase BeachWikidata place
- National Maritime Museum CornwallWikidata place
- Falmouth Docks railway stationWikidata place
- Penmere railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Glasney College2.6 km north-west
- St Mawes Castle3.6 km east
- Tolvan holed stone10.9 km south-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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.