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LiDAR map of Oswestry
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Oswestry, a parish in Shropshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 48 recorded places here: 39 listed buildings, 5 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 105 m and 172 m above sea level; its highest point is about 216 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 enclosures and other earthworks, 1 motte or ringwork and 1 castle.
Oswestry 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 Oswestry, 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 Oswestry. 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 Oswestry. 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 Oswestry 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 48 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
- Shropshire, England
- Area
- 7.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 48
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 105–172 m above sea level; highest 216 m
- ONS code
- E04012254
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Oswestry Castle: motte and adjoining section of the town wall immediately north east of Christ ChurchScheduled monument
- Wat's Dyke: section 350m long, 540m east of Weston FarmScheduled monument
- Wat's Dyke:80m long section and adjacent cultivation terraces 540m east of Oswestry CastleScheduled monument
- Wat's Dyke: 365m long section, extending from 45m north east of Gate House on Shrewsbury RoadScheduled monument
- Wat's Dyke: 375m long section immediately south of Middleton Road and west of Laburnum DriveScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Llwyd Mansion, 1-3 Cross Street
- Church of St Oswald
- Croeswylan Stone
- The Hayes
- Signal Post
- Former Railway Works
- Oak Inn
- Former Malthouse Attached to Right Side
- War Memorial
- St Oswald's Well
- Lych Gate
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Butcher's Arms Public House
- Boar's Head Inn
- Premises Occupied by Doctor's Surgery
- White Lion Inn
- The Fox Inn
- The Bell Inn
- Kings Head Inn
- Hunt Memorial
- Williams Memorial
- Wynnstay Hotel
- Ye Olde Vaults Inn
- Bennion/lewis Memorial Abutting East End
- Wolfe/jennings Memorial
- Oswestry Visitor and Exhibition Centre
- Jones Memorial
- Group of 7 Chest Tombs
- Pair of Memorials to Members of Jones Family
- Jones Memorial
and 9 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Plas WilmotWikidata place
- The Marches SchoolWikidata place
- Walford and North Shropshire CollegeWikidata place
- Oswestry CemeteryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Oswestry Castle390 m north
- Old Oswestry1.6 km north
- Brogyntyn Castle2.7 km north-west
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.