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LiDAR map of Helston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Helston, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 50 recorded places here: 37 listed buildings, 11 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 aerial survey feature, 1 Roman inscription. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 14 m and 79 m above sea level; its highest point is about 88 m.
Helston 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 Helston, 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 Helston. 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 Helston. 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 1 aerial survey feature in the area. More about this map
See Helston 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 (1 feature in the parish) and the 50 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
- 10.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 50
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 14–79 m above sea level; highest 88 m
- ONS code
- E04013063
Listed buildings
- Guildhall
- Church of St Michael
- Monument to H M Grylls
- Stone Cross near Junction with Church Street
- No 1
- No 4
- Footpath Walls and Steps Towards Church Street
- Road Bridge Over River Cober
- Nansloe
- Former Baptist Church
- The Beehive Inn
- Gun From Hms Anson in Central Position Behind
- Angel Hotel
- The National Westminster Bank
- The Rodney Inn
- Helston Museum and Entrance Screen
- Drill Hall
- Fitzsimmons Arms Public House
- Alliance and Leicester Building Society
- Market Place Steps and Paving
- Bell Inn
- Mill House
- Red Lion Public House
- Open Water Conduits on Coinagehall Street
- Old Town Prison
- Open Water Conduits in Church Street and Penrose
- Open Water Conduit on Godolphin Road
- Wall to Rear of No 13
- Chimney
- Wall to Rear of No 11
and 7 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Royal Naval Air Station CuldroseWikidata place
- Helston Community HospitalWikidata place
- Kerrier HundredWikidata place
- The LoeWikidata place
- River CoberWikidata place
- The Flambards ExperienceWikidata place
- Helston railway stationWikidata place
- HelstonWikidata place
- GoonhusbandWikidata place
- DegibnaWikidata place
- Water-Ma-TroutWikidata place
- HelstonRoman inscription
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Tolvan holed stone4.5 km east
- Wheal Trewavas6.2 km west
- Pengersick Castle8.1 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.