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LiDAR map of Lathom
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Lathom, a parish in Lancashire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 23 recorded places here: 16 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 canal structure. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 47 m above sea level; its highest point is about 70 m.
Lathom 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 Lathom, 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 Lathom. 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 Lathom. 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 Lathom 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 23 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
- 15.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 23
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–47 m above sea level; highest 70 m
- ONS code
- E04005309
Listed buildings
- Lathom House, former west wing
- Blythe Hall
- Lathom War Memorial
- Lathom House Chapel of St John
- Old Post Office
- Ha Ha Bounding East and South Sides of Garden
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Top Locks, Lower Lock
- Runnel Brow Bridge
- Tawd Bridge
- Briars Brook Culvert
- Canal Lock
- Junction Bridge at Top Locks
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Top Locks, Upper Lock
- Gate House at Railway Level Crossing
- German's Lock and Bridge
- Gate House at Railway Level Crossing
Other recorded places
- Siege of Lathom HouseWikidata place
- Halton CastleWikidata place
- River TawdWikidata place
- Hoscar railway stationWikidata place
- Lathom and Burscough Urban DistrictWikidata place
- HoscarWikidata place
- Aqueduct 12Canal structure
Nearest places with their own page
- Roman Fort and sections of Roman Roads1.3 km west
- Burscough Priory2.8 km west
- Upholland Priory8.3 km south-east
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.