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LiDAR map of Charnwood
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Charnwood, Leicestershire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 65 recorded places here: 34 listed buildings, 29 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 canal structure, 1 lost settlement. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Charnwood lies between about 38 m and 95 m above sea level; its highest point is about 174 m.
Charnwood 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 Charnwood, 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 Charnwood. 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 Charnwood. 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 Charnwood 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 65 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
- Leicestershire, England
- Area
- 26.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 65
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 38–95 m above sea level; highest 174 m
- ONS code
- E43000264
Listed buildings
- Church of All Saints
- Taylor's Bell Foundry
- The Old Rectory Museum
- Taylor's Bell Foundry
- Church of St Mary and House
- Carillon Tower
- Loughborough Grammar School
- National Westminster Bank
- Fearon Fountain
- The Windmill Public House
- The Carnegie Library
- The Odeon Cinema
- Loughborough Baptists War Memorial
- Loughborough Railway Station
- Loughborough Central Station
- Church of All Saints
- Loughborough Cemetery Chapels
- Emmanuel Church
- Church of Holy Trinity
- General Baptist Meeting House
- Church of St Peter
- The Griffin Inn
- Former Towles Mill
- Halfway House
- Midland Bank
- Former Framework Knitting Workshop
- Town Hall
- Rosebery School
- Garendon Park, Stonebow Bridge
- North Water Tank at Loughborough Central Station
and 4 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Loughborough Canal FestivalWikidata place
- OutwoodsWikidata place
- Loughborough UniversityWikidata place
- Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and OutwoodsWikidata place
- Bishop's MeadowWikidata place
- Loughborough MeadowsWikidata place
- Elite Athlete Centre and HotelWikidata place
- Brush GroundWikidata place
- Burleigh Community CollegeWikidata place
- Engineering Subject CentreWikidata place
- Burleigh Court Conference Centre and HotelWikidata place
- Jubilee WoodWikidata place
- Loughborough CollegeWikidata place
- Nanpantan ReservoirWikidata place
- Pilkington LibraryWikidata place
- RNIB College LoughboroughWikidata place
- Woodbrook ValeWikidata place
- Loughborough Cold StoreWikidata place
- Great Central RailwayWikidata place
- Loughborough Derby Road railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Ulverscroft Priory6.8 km south-west
- Bradgate House8.9 km south
- Groby Castle11.4 km south
Neighbouring parishes
- Woodhouse
- Quorn
- Barrow upon Soar
- Walton on the Wolds
- Cotes
- Hathern
- Stanford on Soar
- Normanton on Soar
- Burton on the Wolds
- Charley
- Shepshed
- Stonebow Village
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.