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LiDAR map of Peak Forest
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Peak Forest, a parish in Derbyshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 44 recorded places here: 22 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 14 scheduled monuments, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 316 m and 431 m above sea level; its highest point is about 548 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 4 industrial sites, 2 long barrows or chambered tombs and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Peak Forest 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 Peak Forest, 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 Peak Forest. 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 Peak Forest. 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 22 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Peak Forest 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 (22 features in the parish) and the 44 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
- Derbyshire, England
- Area
- 21.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 44
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 316–431 m above sea level; highest 548 m
- ONS code
- E04002856
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Eldon Hill bowl barrowScheduled monument
- Gautries RakeScheduled monument
- Snelslow Plantation bowl barrowScheduled monument
- Ox Low oval barrowScheduled monument
- Harrod Low long barrowScheduled monument
- Gautries Hill bowl barrowScheduled monument
- Perry Dale bowl barrow and long barrowScheduled monument
- Eldon Hill crushing circle, associated lead mining remains and palisaded enclosure on Eldon HillScheduled monument
- Hill's Venture lead mineScheduled monument
- Peakshill or Oden soughScheduled monument
- Oxlow Rake lead minesScheduled monument
- Watt's Grove Rake lead mines 520m north of SweetknollScheduled monument
- Faucet Rake lead mines 870m south west and 930m south east of Oxlow HouseScheduled monument
- Coalpithole RakeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Giant's HoleWikidata place
- Oxlow CavernWikidata place
- Rushup EdgeWikidata place
- Peak DaleWikidata place
- Old DamWikidata place
- SparrowpitWikidata place
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LEAD WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- LEAD WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- RAKEAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LEAD WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- LEAD WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- MINE SHAFTAerial survey feature
- LEAD WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Gautries Rake700 m north-west
- Batham Gate3.1 km east
- The Bull Ring3.3 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.