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LiDAR map of Saffron Walden
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Saffron Walden, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 103 recorded places here: 92 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 2 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 60 m and 106 m above sea level; its highest point is about 114 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 moated site.
Saffron Walden 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 Saffron Walden, 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 Saffron Walden. 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 Saffron Walden. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Saffron Walden 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 and the 103 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
- Essex, England
- Area
- 25.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 103
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 60–106 m above sea level; highest 114 m
- ONS code
- E04013412
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Audley End MansionScheduled monument
- Bridge End GardensRegistered park or garden
- Audley EndRegistered park or garden
- The MazeScheduled monument
- Moated site in Paddock Wood 560m north-east of Chesterford ParkScheduled monument
- Battle (or Repell) DitchesScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Walden Castle
- Barclays Bank
- Bridge Over the River Cam at , South
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Nos. 29 and 31, CHURCH STREET
- Tea House and Bridge at , North
- Saint Mark's College
- Youth Hostel
- Commemorative Column at , North
- Ashcroft Court
- Jubilee House
- Lion Gate
- Abbey House
- Eight Bells Inn
- Cross Keys Hotel
- Sparrows Charity
- Bridge End Farmhouse
- Temple
- Burntwood End
- Cromwell House
- Bridge House the Corner House
- Number 53
- The Priory
- War Memorial
- Baptist Church Hall
- Church of Our Lady of Compassion
- Garden wall of Jubilee Gardens
- Cemetery Chapel
- Sullivan House, Former Baptist Chapel
- The Old Chapel
and 62 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Acrow Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Saffron Walden railway stationWikidata place
- Saffron WaldenWikidata place
- Little WaldenWikidata place
- Acrow Engineering Coronation WorksWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Bartlow Hills6.4 km north-east
- Chapel of St Helen, Wicken Bonhunt7.3 km south-west
- Brent Ditch8.2 km north
Neighbouring parishes
- Debden
- Wimbish
- Newport
- Wendens Ambo
- Sewards End
- Ashdon
- Littlebury
- Little Chesterford
- Great Chesterford
- Hadstock
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.