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LiDAR map of Cranham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cranham, a parish in Gloucestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 31 recorded places here: 18 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 162 m and 272 m above sea level; its highest point is about 282 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns.
Cranham 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 Cranham, 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 Cranham. 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 Cranham. 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 18 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cranham 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 (18 features in the parish) and the 31 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
- Gloucestershire, England
- Area
- 7.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 31
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 162–272 m above sea level; highest 282 m
- ONS code
- E04013002
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- High BrotheridgeAtlas of Hillforts entry
- High Brotheridge camp, BuckholtScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow, known as Buck's Head round barrow, 540m east of DunleyScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows, known as Climperwell round barrows, 310m south west of Climperwell FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St James
- Newarke Monument in the Churchyard
- Pinching Family Monument in the Churchyard
- Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard
- Foston's Ash Inn
- Hinton Family Monument in the Churchyard
Other recorded places
- Painswick StreamWikidata place
- Cotswold Commons and BeechwoodsWikidata place
- CranhamWikidata place
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\CAIRNAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- SCARPAerial survey feature
- BUILDING PLATFORMAerial survey feature
- BUILDING PLATFORMAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Great Witcombe Roman Villa1.8 km north
- Painswick Hill (or Kimsbury) camp2.8 km west
- Brimpsfield Castle4.4 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.