LiDAR map of Rayleigh
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rayleigh, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 22 recorded places here: 16 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 22 m and 68 m above sea level; its highest point is about 82 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle.
Rayleigh 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 Rayleigh, 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 Rayleigh. 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 Rayleigh. 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 Rayleigh 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 22 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
- 12.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 22
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 22–68 m above sea level; highest 82 m
- ONS code
- E04004087
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Rayleigh CastleScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Rayleigh Windmill
- Rayleigh Baptist Church
- Church of Holy Trinity
- The Crown Public House
- Francis House
- Number 42a
- Amigos Restaurant
- Barnabys Hotel
- Holland and Barret Health Food Shop
- The Old White Horse Public House
- Headstone Immediately
- Martyrs Memorial Obelisk on Pavement in Front
- Spread Eagle Public House
- La Romantica Restaurant
- Town Pump on Pavement in Front of Number 83
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- HM Prison Bullwood HallWikidata place
- Rayleigh railway stationWikidata place
- Dutch CottageWikidata place
- Rayleigh Urban DistrictWikidata place
- Rayleigh CemeteryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Rayleigh Castle880 m south
- Hadleigh Castle5.7 km south
- Prittlewell Priory8.4 km south-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.