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LiDAR map of Cuckmere Valley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cuckmere Valley, a parish in East Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 97 recorded places here: 77 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 scheduled monuments, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 3 m and 119 m above sea level; its highest point is about 174 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns and 1 medieval settlement.
Cuckmere Valley 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 Cuckmere Valley, 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 Cuckmere Valley. 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 Cuckmere Valley. 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 77 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cuckmere Valley 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 (77 features in the parish) and the 97 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
- East Sussex, England
- Area
- 17.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 97
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 3–119 m above sea level; highest 174 m
- ONS code
- E04003836
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Dovecote at Charleston ManorScheduled monument
- Round barrow SW of Winchester's PondScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow north of Charleston Bottom, 1100m south east of Chamber's CourtScheduled monument
- Oval barrow above Charleston Bottom 1080m south east of Chamber's CourtScheduled monument
- Oval barrow 200m north east of Exceat Park CentreScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow at Newbarn Bottom, 450m east of FoxholeScheduled monument
- Napoleonic Barracks 480m south-west of Foxhole Farm, Cuckmere HavenScheduled monument
- Remains of Exceat parish church: part of the former medieval settlement of Exceat, 690m south south west of Westdean ManorScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- The Parish Church
- The Parish Church of All Saints
- The Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel
- The Plough and Harrow Inn
Nearest places with their own page
- Long Man of Wilmington3.5 km north
- Wilmington Priory4.3 km north
- Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Combe Hill4.7 km north-east
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.