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LiDAR map of Owston and Newbold
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Owston and Newbold, a parish in Leicestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 8 recorded places here: 3 scheduled monuments, 3 lost settlements, 1 listed building, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 130 m and 186 m above sea level; its highest point is about 212 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 moated sites and 1 monastic site.
Owston and Newbold 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 Owston and Newbold, 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 Owston and Newbold. 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 Owston and Newbold. 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 Owston and Newbold 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 8 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
- Leicestershire, England
- Area
- 12.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 8
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 130–186 m above sea level; highest 212 m
- ONS code
- E04005460
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Owston Augustinian Abbey with six fishponds, a gatehouse and boundaryScheduled monument
- Moated grange and enclosure at OwstonScheduled monument
- North Marefield deserted medieval village and moated siteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Owston WoodsWikidata place
- Gillethorp or Godthorp SK770100 Lost place included in Domesday as Godtorp and aLost settlement
- Newbold Saucey SK765090 Deserted Medieval Village in OwstonLost settlement
- North Marefield SK752088 Deserted Medieval VillageLost settlement
Nearest places with their own page
- Sauvey Castle3.6 km south-east
- Burrough Hill3.6 km north
- Oakham Castle9.1 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Tilton on the Hill and Halstead
- Withcote
- Marefield
- Knossington and Cold Overton
- Somerby
- Twyford and Thorpe
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.