LiDAR map of Ongar
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ongar, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 38 recorded places here: 30 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 44 m and 75 m above sea level; its highest point is about 98 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns and 1 castle.
Ongar 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 Ongar, 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 Ongar. 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 Ongar. 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 Ongar 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 38 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
- 9.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 38
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 44–75 m above sea level; highest 98 m
- ONS code
- E04004027
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ongar CastleScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 120m north-west of the footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley CommonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 90m north-west of the footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley CommonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 50m north-west of footbridge: one of three round barrows on Shelley CommonScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Greensted Hall
- Marden Ash House
- Shelley Hall
- Church of St Andrew
- Church of St Martin
- Newhouse Farmhouse
- Hockings Bakery, J Dwyer and Bowden and Son
- Table Tomb in Churchyard of St Peter, Approx 15
- Greenwood Keen-parts the Royal Oak Public House
- Ongar Station
- Church of St Peter
- United Reformed Church
- Iron Railings to Churchyard at Church of St Martin
- P J Carter
- Pearces Bakers, Sworders Ongar Insurance
- J W M Bough Chemist
- Nicholas Faulkner the Chocolate Box
- The Ongar Bell Public House
- Budworth Hall
- W E Cole and Hairdressing by Eric
- Kismet Indian Restaurant
- Alliance Building Society and Messers Rogett
- The Cock Tavern
- Tomb in Churchyard Approx 15 Yards
- The King's Head
- Table Tomb in Churchyard of Church of St Peter
- Premises of Jackmans Office Equipment to Rear
- Former Shoppers Paradise
- Two Brewers Public House
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Greensted GreenWikidata place
- Marden AshWikidata place
- GreenstedWikidata place
- Chipping Ongar CemeteryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Ongar Castle470 m south
- Thoby Priory8.8 km south-east
- Latton Priory9.1 km west
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.