LiDAR map of Rochford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rochford, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 23 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 7 m and 40 m above sea level; its highest point is about 66 m.
Rochford 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 Rochford, 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 Rochford. 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 Rochford. 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 Rochford 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 26 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
- 12.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 7–40 m above sea level; highest 66 m
- ONS code
- E04004083
Listed buildings
- Rochford Hall and Ruins
- Church of St Andrew
- Purpose Built Barn with Horse Engine
- Masonic Hall
- Headstone and Surrounds
- Womens Institute Hall
- Former Rochford Union Workhouse Chapel
- The Crusty Pie
- Rh Facey and Lang, Solicitors
- The Old Ship Public House
- Cottages and the Golden Lion Public House
- Renoufs Restaurant
- The Kings Head Hotel
- Rochford Hospital Johnson Isolation Block
- Horner's Corner Horner's Corner Shop Front Facing
- Rochford Hospital Boiler House
- Headstones of Josiah Weld, Mary Weld, Daniel Weld
- Milestone on Northern Verge
- Milestone on Northern Verge
- Milestone on Eastern Verge
- Pump
- Cannon
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Zeusch Aviation Flight 1Wikidata place
- Rochford railway stationWikidata place
- Southend Airport railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Prittlewell Priory4.0 km south-east
- Rayleigh Castle5.1 km west
- Hadleigh Castle6.5 km south-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.