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LiDAR map of St Albans
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of St Albans, Hertfordshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 99 recorded places here: 61 listed buildings, 31 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 scheduled monuments, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in St Albans lies between about 80 m and 117 m above sea level; its highest point is about 128 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 monastic sites, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 Roman site.
St Albans 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 St Albans, 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 St Albans. 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 St Albans. 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 St Albans 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 99 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
- Hertfordshire, England
- Area
- 20.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 99
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 80–117 m above sea level; highest 128 m
- ONS code
- E43000290
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Verulamium, site ofScheduled monument
- Iron Age territorial boundary known as Beech Bottom DykeScheduled monument
- Verulamium, part of wall and ditch of Roman cityScheduled monument
- The Benedictine Priory of St Mary (Sopwell Priory) and the post-medieval mansions known as Sopwell House or Lee HallScheduled monument
- St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildingsScheduled monument
- VerulamiumAncient place (Pleiades)
- VerlamionAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Verulamium
- Clock Tower
- The Abbey Gate
- Abbey Church of St Alban
- Church of St Peter
- Church of St Michael's
- Kingsbury Barn
- St Michael's Church of England Primary School
- Sopwell House
- Kingsbury Mill
- Sopwell Mill
- Darrowfield House
- The Grange
- Church of St Stephen
- The Crown and Anchor
- Court House
- The White Hart
- Romeland House
- Holywell House
- Manor Garden House
- St Michael's Manor House
- War Memorial Plaque attached to 80 and 82 Sopwell
- Congregational Chapel
- The Old Church
- Church of Saint Saviour
- Turning Forms Sculpture Outside Marlborough School
- Hare and Hounds Public House
- The Six Bells
- The Blue Anchor
- The King Harry Public House
and 31 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Church of SS Alban and StephenWikidata place
- St Albans Crown CourtWikidata place
- Hypocaust MuseumWikidata place
- The Wick Local Nature ReserveWikidata place
- River VerWikidata place
- St Albans City HospitalWikidata place
- Odyssey CinemaWikidata place
- Hill End HospitalWikidata place
- Oaklands CollegeWikidata place
- St Columba's CollegeWikidata place
- Verulam SchoolWikidata place
- Verulamium ParkWikidata place
- St Albans City railway stationWikidata place
- St Albans Abbey railway stationWikidata place
- Hill End railway stationWikidata place
- Salvation Army Halt railway stationWikidata place
- St AlbansWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Clock Tower1.5 km west
- Sopwell Priory1.6 km south-west
- Beech Bottom Dyke1.7 km north
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.