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LiDAR map of Northchurch
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Northchurch, a parish in Hertfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 21 recorded places here: 11 listed buildings, 5 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 123 m and 182 m above sea level; its highest point is about 191 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 Roman sites and 1 moated site.
Northchurch 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 Northchurch, 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 Northchurch. 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 Northchurch. 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 Northchurch 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 21 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
- 15.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 21
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 123–182 m above sea level; highest 191 m
- ONS code
- E04004708
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hertfordshire Grim's Ditch: 230m long section in Hamberlins WoodScheduled monument
- Hertfordshire Grim's Ditch: 210m long section immediately north west of Woodcock HillScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement and earthworks on Berkhamsted CommonScheduled monument
- Romano-British Villa and Temple, and Iron Age Dyke, on Berkhamsted CommonScheduled monument
- Marlin Chapel Farm moated siteScheduled monument
- NorthchurchAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of Saint Mary
- Saint George and the Dragon Public House
- Lockside, and Dudswell Wharf
- Lock No 48 and Bridge No 138 on Grand Union Canal
- Gravestone of Peter the Wild Boy
- Northchurch War Memorial and former plinth 5m
- Lock House
- Lock No 46
- Ruins of Chapel of St Mary Magdalene at Marlin
and 2 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Northchurch Roman villaWikidata place
- Alpine Meadow, BerkhamstedWikidata place
- RosswayWikidata place
- DudswellWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Berkhamsted Castle2.9 km south-east
- Hawridge Court ringwork5.6 km south-west
- Cholesbury Camp6.0 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Ashley Green
- Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards
- Berkhamsted
- Wigginton
- Aldbury
- Nettleden with Potten End
- Little Gaddesden
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.