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LiDAR map of Cowes
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cowes, a parish in Isle of Wight, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 30 recorded places here: 25 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 wreck. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 52 m above sea level; its highest point is about 56 m.
Cowes 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 Cowes, 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 Cowes. 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 Cowes. 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 Cowes 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 30 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
- Isle of Wight, England
- Area
- 2.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 30
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–52 m above sea level; highest 56 m
- ONS code
- E04001300
Listed buildings
- West Cowes Castle
- Church of St Mary
- Northwood House
- Ivy House
- Hammerhead Crane at J S White Shipyard
- Castle Mount Montague House
- The Round House
- Church of St Faith's
- Three Crowns Public House
- Esplanade Wall
- The Copper Kettle Restaurant
- Alexandra Hall
- Coles Yard and Slipway
- Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and Presbytery
- The Vectis Tavern
- Duke of York Public House
- The Chamber Union House
- Department of Employment
- The Bell Inn
- The Fountain Hotel
- Anchor Inn
- Cowes War Memorial
and 3 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Isle of Wight Jewish SocietyWikidata place
- Mill Hill railway stationWikidata place
- Rosetta CottageWikidata place
- CowesWikidata place
- Wreck showing any portion of hull or superstructureWreck
Nearest places with their own page
- Calshot Castle6.8 km north
- Newport Roman Villa7.2 km south
- St Andrew's Castle10.5 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.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.