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LiDAR map of Cannock Wood
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cannock Wood, a parish in Staffordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 12 recorded places here: 9 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 scheduled monument, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 175 m and 228 m above sea level; its highest point is about 242 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 moated site.
Cannock Wood 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 Cannock Wood, 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 Cannock Wood. 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 Cannock Wood. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. The records hold 9 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cannock Wood 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 (9 features in the parish) and the 12 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
- Staffordshire, England
- Area
- 2.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 12
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 175–228 m above sea level; highest 242 m
- ONS code
- E04008872
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Castle RingAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Moated site and bloomery in Courtbanks CovertScheduled monument
Other recorded places
- Cannock WoodWikidata place
- DAMAerial survey feature
- MOATAerial survey feature
- BLOOMERYAerial survey feature
- WELLAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- MINE SHAFTAerial survey feature
- MINE SHAFTAerial survey feature
- PARK PALEAerial survey feature
- HUNTING LODGEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Castle Ring650 m north-west
- Letocetum7.6 km south-east
- Pillaton Hall10.4 km 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.