LiDAR map of Matching
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Matching, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 13 recorded places here: 7 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 69 m and 88 m above sea level; its highest point is about 93 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 moated site.
Matching 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 Matching, 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 Matching. 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 Matching. 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 Matching 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 13 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
- Essex, England
- Area
- 13.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 13
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 69–88 m above sea level; highest 93 m
- ONS code
- E04012203
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Moated site known as Tadgells, 100m south west of The CottageScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Matching Hall
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Moat House
- The Marriage Feast Room
- Pump at Mulberry Cottage
- Pump at the Limes
- Matching Mill
Other recorded places
- Housham TyeWikidata place
- Newman's EndWikidata place
- Matching GreenWikidata place
- Matching TyeWikidata place
- Threshers BushWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Hatfield Broad Oak Priory6.1 km north-east
- Latton Priory7.1 km south-west
- Ongar Castle8.9 km south
Neighbouring parishes
- North Weald Bassett
- High Laver
- Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding
- Harlow
- Little Laver
- Sheering
- Hatfield Heath
- White Roothing
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.