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LiDAR map of West Lancashire
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of West Lancashire, Lancashire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 42 recorded places here: 31 listed buildings, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in West Lancashire lies between about 35 m and 93 m above sea level; its highest point is about 172 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 moated site.
West Lancashire 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 West Lancashire, 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 West Lancashire. 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 West Lancashire. 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 West Lancashire 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 42 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
- Lancashire, England
- Area
- 29.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 42
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 35–93 m above sea level; highest 172 m
- ONS code
- E43000101
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cross Hall moated siteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Remains of Burscough Priory
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Water Tower on Tower Hill
- Bath Lodge
- Roman Catholic Church of St Anne
- Church of St Paul
- Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park
- Deans Farmhouse
- War Memorial
- Clock Tower
- Beaconsfield Monument
- War Memorial
- Ormskirk Comrades War Memorial
- Ormskirk Railway Station, Building
- Sundial
- Emmanuel Methodist United Reformed Church
- Church of St James
- Lychgate to Church of St James
- Magistrates Courts
- Number 36, Cafe Bar
- Lodge to Water Pumping House
- Buck I' Th' Vine Inn
- The Old Brewhouse
- Ormskirk Division Agricultural Club
- Water Fountain in St Helens Road Park
- The Windmill Public House
- The Old Toby Public House
- Water Pumping House
- Ormskirk Railway Station, Booking Office Etc
- Railway Bridge with Cutting Walls to North
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Battle of OrmskirkWikidata place
- Lathom High School : A Technology CollegeWikidata place
- Ormskirk and District General HospitalWikidata place
- Edge Hill UniversityWikidata place
- White Moss Level Crossing Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Westhead Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Skelmersdale railway stationWikidata place
- Ormskirk Urban DistrictWikidata place
- Skelmersdale and HollandWikidata place
- SkelmersdaleWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Burscough Priory1.9 km north-east
- Roman Fort and sections of Roman Roads3.5 km north-east
- Upholland Priory10.6 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.