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LiDAR map of Hamsey
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Hamsey, a parish in East Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 64 recorded places here: 40 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 11 listed buildings, 9 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered battlefield. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 5 m and 126 m above sea level; its highest point is about 194 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 barrows or cairns and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Hamsey 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 Hamsey, 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 Hamsey. 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 Hamsey. 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 40 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Hamsey 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 (40 features in the parish) and the 64 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
- 11.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 64
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–126 m above sea level; highest 194 m
- ONS code
- E04003774
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Battle of Lewes 1264Registered battlefield
- Causewayed enclosure on Offham HillScheduled monument
- Three barrows on Offham HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow south of Coombe PlantationScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 300m north west of Mount HarryScheduled monument
- Barrow field north-west of Offham HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow east of Lewes RacecourseScheduled monument
- Four Barrows South of Coombe Plantation, OffhamScheduled monument
- Bowl Barrow South of Coombe PlantationScheduled monument
- Icehouse 140m west of Coombe PlaceScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- The Parish Church of St Peter
- Shelleys Folley
- Offham House
- Coombe Place
- Hamsey House Cottage Yeomans
- Hamsey Place Farmhouse
- Church of St Peter
- Offham Post Office and Stores
- The Malthouse
- The Rainbow Inn
- Offham tramway tunnels, portals, parapets
Other recorded places
- Offham MarshesWikidata place
- Cooksbridge railway stationWikidata place
- HamseyWikidata place
- CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)Aerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)Aerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)Aerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)Aerial survey feature
- HUT\SEARCHLIGHT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- STACK STAND\MOUNDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Offham Hill Causewayed Enclosure1.9 km south
- Lewes Castle3.8 km south
- Lewes Priory4.4 km south
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.