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LiDAR map of Ashwell
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ashwell, a parish in Hertfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 35 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 6 Roman inscriptions, 5 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 38 m and 86 m above sea level; its highest point is about 100 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns and 2 moated sites.
Ashwell 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 Ashwell, 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 Ashwell. 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 Ashwell. 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 1 aerial survey feature in the area. More about this map
See Ashwell 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 (1 feature in the parish) and the 35 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
- Hertfordshire, England
- Area
- 16.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 35
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 38–86 m above sea level; highest 100 m
- ONS code
- E04004767
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Arbury BanksAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Ring ditches and enclosures at Slip EndScheduled monument
- Highley Hill bowl barrowScheduled monument
- Moated enclosures east and west of Love Lane, AshwellScheduled monument
- Crop Marks of five Ring Ditches west of Station Road, AshwellScheduled monument
- Mobbs Hole moated site and decoy pond, AshwellScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Ashwell Bury
- Ashwell War Memorial
- Rose and Crown Public House
- Town House
- Jessamine House
- Forresters Cottage
- Bear House
- Ducklake
- Guild House
- The Three Tuns Hotel Public House
- Ashwell Further Education Centre
- Village Lock-up in Garden of Number 20
- The Mill
- Two Brewers
- Tombstone in New Cemetery to Mary Morwenno
- Tombstone in New Cemetery to Wolverlry Attwood
- Lychgate
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Ashwell Quarry and Quarry SpringsWikidata place
- Westbury Nernewtes ManorWikidata place
- AshwellWikidata place
- AshwellRoman inscription
- AshwellRoman inscription
- AshwellRoman inscription
- AshwellRoman inscription
- AshwellRoman inscription
- AshwellRoman inscription
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Arbury Banks1.9 km south
- Shingay Preceptory8.1 km north-east
- Sutton Packhorse Bridge8.2 km north-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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.