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LiDAR map of Forton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Forton, a parish in Lancashire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 17 recorded places here: 13 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 canal structures. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 10 m and 49 m above sea level; its highest point is about 66 m.
Forton 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 Forton, 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 Forton. 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 Forton. 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 Forton 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 17 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
- Lancashire, England
- Area
- 9.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 17
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 10–49 m above sea level; highest 66 m
- ONS code
- E04005326
Listed buildings
- Church of St Paul
- Building in Churchyard North
- Forton, Cleveley and Holleth War Memorial
- United Reformed Church
- Old Limekiln at Ratcliffe Wharf
- Tomb of James Aray, South
- Nos 1 and 2 Clifton Hill
- Cross Base
- Former Pennine Tower Restaurant at Lancaster
- Richmond Bridge
- Potters Brook Bridge
- Boundary Stone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Lancaster ServicesWikidata place
- Hollins LaneWikidata place
- Aqueduct B.82, Cocker AqueductCanal structure
- Potters Brook WharfCanal structure
Nearest places with their own page
- Cockersand Abbey6.7 km west
- Skerton Bridge10.9 km north
- High cross in St Wilfrid's churchyard, Halton13.3 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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.