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LiDAR map of Overton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Overton (Owrtyn), a community in Wrexham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 40 recorded places here: 23 Coflein records, 11 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 30 m and 80 m above sea level; its highest point is about 96 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 moated site.
Overton 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: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Overton, 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 Overton. 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
See Overton 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 and the 40 recorded places in the community, 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
- Wrexham, Wales
- Area
- 18.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 40
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 30–80 m above sea level; highest 96 m
- ONS code
- W04000238
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Gwernheylod BanksAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Lightwood Farm Moated SiteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of Saint Mary
- Knolton Hall
- Llan-y-Cefn
- Knolton Mission Church
- Telephone Call-box
- The Old Smithy
- Ferndale
- Metcalfe Building
- Metcalfe Building
- Poulton Bridge
- House
Other recorded places
- Miles Master I N7445Coflein record
- Overton-On-Dee StationCoflein record
- Bryn-y-Pys Enclosure ComplexCoflein record
- Cae Whisken Fieldname, OvertonWikidata place
- Asney Park Farm possible Roman campCoflein record
- Castle Wood, Artillery FortCoflein record
- Cloy Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Mortuary Chapel, OvertonCoflein record
- Independent ChapelCoflein record
- Crabtree Green English Presbyterian ChapelCoflein record
- Cloy Primitive Methodist Chapel, OvertonCoflein record
- Knolton Primitive Methodist Church , KnoltonCoflein record
- Overton Primitivemethodist Chapel;Owrtyn, No.Coflein record
- Ash Grove, Garden, OvertonCoflein record
- Bryn-y-Pys, Garden, OvertonCoflein record
- Old Blue Bell InnCoflein record
- Causeway FieldCoflein record
- Minyrafon House and Out-BuildingsCoflein record
- Salop RoadCoflein record
- RhewlCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Bangor Bridge4.8 km north
- Ellesmere Castle6.7 km south-east
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct10.7 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: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.