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LiDAR map of Newquay
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Newquay, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 85 recorded places here: 35 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 22 listed buildings, 22 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 14 m and 68 m above sea level; its highest point is about 94 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns, 1 hillfort and 1 cross.
Newquay 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 Newquay, 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 Newquay. 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 Newquay. 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 35 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Newquay 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 (35 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
- 14.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 85
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 14–68 m above sea level; highest 94 m
- ONS code
- E04013070
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Trevelgue HeadAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Promontory fort and two bowl barrows at Trevelgue HeadScheduled monument
- Three bowl barrows, once part of a round barrow cemetery, at BarrowfieldsScheduled monument
- Three round cairns at The Warren on Pentire Point EastScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 190m east of Zacry's IslandsScheduled monument
- Doublestiles Cross, at the junction of Duchy Avenue and Henver RoadScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Columba
- Huer's House
- Church of St Michael
- Church of St Columb Minor
- Newquay Craft Centre
- Lychgate at the South West Entrance
- Wesleyan Methodist Church
- King Monument in the Churchyard
- Trenance Cottages Museum
- Former Newquay lifeboat house and slipway
- The Headland Hotel
- Newquay War Memorial
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
- Claremont Methodist Church
- Milestone
- Pair of Monuments to the Martyn Family
- Nicholls Monument in the Churchyard
- Tolcarne Cross
- Group of 4 Monuments in the Churchyard
- Arundell Monument in the Churchyard
- Milestone Outside No.34 Henver Road
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Penhallow Hotel fireWikidata place
- Newquay Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- Newquay ZooWikidata place
- Lusty GlazeWikidata place
- Watergate BeachWikidata place
- Great Western HotelWikidata place
- Hotel Victoria, NewquayWikidata place
- Fistral Bay HotelWikidata place
- Newquay railway stationWikidata place
- St Columb MinorWikidata place
- Rialton GrangeWikidata place
- NansledanWikidata place
- ChapelWikidata place
- PentireWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- St Piran's Round9.9 km south-west
- Castle an Dinas, St Columb Major11.0 km east
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.