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LiDAR map of Seaford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Seaford, a parish in East Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 145 recorded places here: 113 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 13 listed buildings, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 scheduled monuments, 2 lost settlements. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 4 m and 76 m above sea level; its highest point is about 111 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns.
Seaford 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 Seaford, 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 Seaford. 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 Seaford. 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 113 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Seaford 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 (113 features in the parish) and the 145 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
- 17.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 145
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–76 m above sea level; highest 111 m
- ONS code
- E04003794
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Seaford Head CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Bowl barrow on High and Over, SeafordScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows, the south easternmost pair of a group of six bowl barrows, forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Rookery HillScheduled monument
- A pair of bowl barrows forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery, and a hlaew on Rookery HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery on Rookery HillScheduled monument
- Martello tower no 74 on Seaford EsplanadeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Andrew
- The Old Town Hall
- The Parish Church of St Leonard
- The Parish Church of St Peter
- Seaford War Memorial
- Seaford Railway Station
- Churchyard Wall
- Churchyard Wall
- Twyn Cottage and Twyn House
- The Regency Lounge
- Wall of Churchyard and Enclosure to the East
and 2 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Medieval crypt, Church Street1.1 km south-west
- Newhaven Fort3.8 km west
- Long Man of Wilmington6.6 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.