Home LiDAR map Essex Castle Point
LiDAR map of Castle Point
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Castle Point, Essex, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 37 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 15 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Castle Point lies between about 5 m and 74 m above sea level; its highest point is about 88 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 Roman sites and 1 military site.
Castle Point 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 Castle Point, 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 Castle Point. 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 Castle Point. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Castle Point 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 and the 37 recorded places in this area, 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
- Essex, England
- Area
- 26.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 37
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–74 m above sea level; highest 88 m
- ONS code
- E43000061
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Romano-British site N of Pound Wood, ThundersleyScheduled monument
- Roman Fort at HadleighScheduled monument
- Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite on Sandpit HillScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Hadleigh Castle
- Church of St James the Less
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Church of St. Peter
- The Anchor Inn and Building Attached to Right
- Shipwrights
- Group of 4 Headstones Between 18
- Hadleigh War Memorial
- Tombstone of Sir Charles Nicholson and family
- The Half Crown Inn
- The Hoy and Helmet Inn
- Street Lamp Outside 7 the Close
- Former Pumping Station
- Benfleet Conservative Club
- Street Lamp
- Benfleet Water Tower
- Table Tomb
- South Benfleet War Memorial
- Junction of London Road and Meadow Road Milestone
Other recorded places
- Battle of BenfleetWikidata place
- Garrold's MeadowWikidata place
- Little Haven Nature ReserveWikidata place
- Pound WoodWikidata place
- Tile WoodWikidata place
- Great Wood and Dodd's GroveWikidata place
- Hadleigh Country ParkWikidata place
- USP CollegeWikidata place
- Rayleigh Weir StadiumWikidata place
- Benfleet railway stationWikidata place
- Hadleigh Bus DepotWikidata place
- South BenfleetWikidata place
- Benfleet Urban DistrictWikidata place
- Daws HeathWikidata place
- ThundersleyWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Hadleigh Castle2.4 km south-east
- Rayleigh Castle3.2 km north
- Prittlewell Priory8.2 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.