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LiDAR map of Launcells
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Launcells, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 43 recorded places here: 25 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 10 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 76 m and 144 m above sea level; its highest point is about 167 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns and 1 motte or ringwork.
Launcells 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 Launcells, 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 Launcells. 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 Launcells. 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 25 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Launcells 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 (25 features in the parish) and the 43 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
- 25.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 43
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 76–144 m above sea level; highest 167 m
- ONS code
- E04011465
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow at Red PostScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 300m NNW of Red PostScheduled monument
- Motte and bailey castle called East Leigh BerrysScheduled monument
- Hobbacott canal inclineScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Swithin
- Anderton and Barn
- Launcells Barton
- Chest Tomb
- The Post Office
- Hersham Carpentry
- Canal Bridge and Towpath
- Aqueduct
- Milestone
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Buttsbear CrossWikidata place
- Launcells CrossWikidata place
- LauncellsWikidata place
- HershamWikidata place
- MOTTE AND BAILEYAerial survey feature
- MOTTE AND BAILEYAerial survey feature
- ROUNDAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BRICKWORKSAerial survey feature
- RESERVOIRAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUNDAerial survey feature
- ROUNDAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- HOLLOWAerial survey feature
- HOLLOWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Penstowe Castle5.3 km north
- Two bowl barrows6.3 km south-west
- Penhallam9.6 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.