LiDAR map of Roche
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Roche, a parish in Cornwall, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 146 recorded places here: 102 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 21 listed buildings, 19 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 127 m and 215 m above sea level; its highest point is about 353 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns and 1 cross.
Roche 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 Roche, 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 Roche. 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 Roche. 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 102 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Roche 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 (102 features in the parish) and the 146 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
- 26.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 146
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 127–215 m above sea level; highest 353 m
- ONS code
- E04011517
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Churchyard cross in Roche churchyard, 10m south of the churchScheduled monument
- Three bowl barrows between 120m and 820m south of Brynn Barton CottageScheduled monument
- Platform cairn 180m northwest of Hensbarrow FarmScheduled monument
- Holy well NW of Roche StationScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Chapel of St Michael at Roche Rock
- Coldvreath Mill
- Roche Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Belowda Mine Buildings
- Kiln Chimney
- Higman Monument in Churchyard
- Carbis Brick and Tile Works
- Great Wheal Prosper China Clay Works
- Royalton Mine Engine House
- Wheal Rose China Clay Works
- Marker Stone for the Cornubian Mine
- Rosemellyn China Clay Works Engine House
- Kiln Chimney
- Bilberry Pit Kiln Chimney
- Kiln Chimney
- Cross in the Glebe Field
- Brynn Mill
- Cross
- Guidestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Tresayes QuarryWikidata place
- Cornwall ServicesWikidata place
- Hensbarrow BeaconWikidata place
- Roche railway stationWikidata place
- Higher TownWikidata place
- Mount PleasantWikidata place
- HensbarrowWikidata place
- RocheWikidata place
- BelowdaWikidata place
- BilberryWikidata place
- CarbisWikidata place
- ColdvreathWikidata place
- CrigganWikidata place
- GraccaWikidata place
- TrebilcockWikidata place
- TregossWikidata place
- TrezaiseWikidata place
- VictoriaWikidata place
- Roche CemeteryWikidata place
- CHINA CLAY WORKSAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Castle an Dinas, St Columb Major4.3 km west
- Treffry Viaduct7.9 km south-east
- Lesquite Quoit8.8 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.