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LiDAR map of Penryn
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Penryn, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 33 recorded places here: 24 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 1 wreck. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 12 m and 80 m above sea level; its highest point is about 98 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 cross.
Penryn 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 Penryn, 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 Penryn. 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 Penryn. 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 2 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Penryn 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 (2 features in the parish) and the 33 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
- 3.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 33
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 12–80 m above sea level; highest 98 m
- ONS code
- E04013071
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Fish Cross: standing cross immediately east of the Town HallScheduled monument
- College known as Glasney College, PenrynScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Gluvias
- Exchequer Quay
- Enys Tomb
- The Three Tuns Inn
- Well Head
- Chest Tomb
- Roberts Tomb
- Former National School
- War Memorial by South West Corner of Church of St
- Johnstone Tomb
- Wharf Warehouse
- Chest Tomb
- Mill House
- The Seven Stars Public House
- The Old Mill House
- Milestone to North
- Penryn South West Railway Viaduct
- Penryn South West Piers of Former Viaduct
- Lychgate
- Sundial
- Warehouse
- Warehouse
- Milestone
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Penryn railway stationWikidata place
- St GluviasWikidata place
- BissomWikidata place
- KernickWikidata place
- BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- Wreck showing any portion of hull or superstructureWreck
Nearest places with their own page
- Glasney College520 m south-east
- St Mawes Castle6.1 km east
- Tolvan holed stone10.3 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.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.