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LiDAR map of Westminster
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Westminster, Greater London, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 1,237 recorded places here: 1,046 listed buildings, 170 places recorded in Wikidata, 17 registered parks and gardens, 2 commemorative plaques, 2 canal structures. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Westminster lies between about 5 m and 36 m above sea level; its highest point is about 53 m.
Westminster 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 Westminster, 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 Westminster. 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 Westminster. 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 Westminster 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 1,237 recorded places in this area, 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
- Greater London, England
- Area
- 20.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 1,237
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–36 m above sea level; highest 53 m
- ONS code
- E43000236
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Kensington GardensRegistered park or garden
- St James's ParkRegistered park or garden
- Regent's ParkRegistered park or garden
- Hyde ParkRegistered park or garden
- Buckingham PalaceRegistered park or garden
- Green ParkRegistered park or garden
- Grosvenor SquareRegistered park or garden
- Eccleston SquareRegistered park or garden
- Portman Square and Manchester SquareRegistered park or garden
- Warwick SquareRegistered park or garden
- The Grosvenor Estate: Chester SquareRegistered park or garden
- Dolphin Square GardensRegistered park or garden
- Landscape to Churchill Gardens EstateRegistered park or garden
- Pimlico GardensRegistered park or garden
- St George's Square GardenRegistered park or garden
- Brunel EstateRegistered park or garden
- The Water Gardens Designed LandscapeRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Cleopatra's Needle
- The Jewel House
- Church of St Margaret, Westminster
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- The Royal Society of Arts
- York Water Gate
- Church of St Mary Le Strand
- New West End Synagogue
- Nuffield Lodge
- The National Liberal Club
- Horse Guards
- Lyceum Theatre
- National Gallery
- Prince Consort National Memorial
- Royal Albert Hall
- Penguin Pool
- Houses of Parliament and The Palace of Westminster
- The Guards Memorial
- Statue of George Iii in Somerset House Quadrangle
- The Edith Cavell Memorial
- Banqueting House
- The Cenotaph
- Westminster Abbey
- Canada House
- Royal Geographical Society
- The Savoy Theatre
- Wyndhams Theatre
- Statue of Charles i
- Church of St Mary
- Church of St Mary of the Angels
and 1,016 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Save The 100 Club Benefit ConcertWikidata place
- athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – men's 20Wikidata place
- Delaware v City of WestminsterWikidata place
- Hyde Park Barracks, LondonWikidata place
- Balcombe Street SiegeWikidata place
- The BeaverWikidata place
- London 10,000Wikidata place
- London to Brighton Veteran Car RunWikidata place
- Baker Street robberyWikidata place
- The Great ExhibitionWikidata place
- triathlon at the 2012 Summer OlympicsWikidata place
- Iranian Embassy SiegeWikidata place
- assassination of Airey NeaveWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Park Crescent West ice well1.2 km north
- Jewel Tower2.4 km south-east
- Kensington Palace2.5 km 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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Plaques: Open Plaques, public domain.
Last updated 2026-10-16.