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LiDAR map of Tower Hamlets
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 565 recorded places here: 345 listed buildings, 208 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 registered parks and gardens, 4 scheduled monuments, 1 World Heritage Site. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Tower Hamlets lies between about 4 m and 14 m above sea level; its highest point is about 21 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site, 1 monastic site and 1 bridge.
Tower Hamlets 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 Tower Hamlets, 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 Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets 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 565 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
- Greater London, England
- Area
- 19.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 565
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–14 m above sea level; highest 21 m
- ONS code
- E43000220
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site
- Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden
- Roman Bath House, ShadwellScheduled monument
- Site of the launch ways of the SS Great EasternScheduled monument
- Priory and Hospital of St Mary SpitalScheduled monument
- Island GardensRegistered park or garden
- The Novo CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's CanalScheduled monument
- Arnold Circus, Bethnal GreenRegistered park or garden
- Shadwell Roman BathhouseAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Portion of Old London Wall
- Christ Church
- Church of St George in the East
- Tower Bridge Approach
- Church of St John on Bethnal Green
- The Middle Tower, with Causeway to Byward Tower
- St Augustine with St Philip's Church
- Wilton's Music Hall
- The Widow's Son Public House
- Whitechapel Art Gallery
- Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain
- The Royal Mint
- Bethnal Green Museum
- Blind Beggar and His Dog Cranbrook Estate
- Quay Walls,copings and Butresses to Import Dock
- Brick Lane Jamme Masjid
- Keeling House Bethnal Green
- Blackwall Basin
- Raine's House
- Balfron Tower
- Bromley Hall
- Phoenix School
- Parish Church of St Dunstan and All Saints
- A Warehouse
- The Merchant Navy Memorial, First World War
- Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St
- York Hall
- Church of St Peter
- Church of St Anne
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
and 315 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Ratcliff Highway murdersWikidata place
- Canary WharfWikidata place
- Battle of Cable StreetWikidata place
- Boishakhi MelaWikidata place
- Field DayWikidata place
- All Points EastWikidata place
- HMS PresidentWikidata place
- London ArenaWikidata place
- St Barnabas Community FeteWikidata place
- Siege of Sidney StreetWikidata place
- London DocklandsWikidata place
- Shadwell BasinWikidata place
- London DocksWikidata place
- Millwall DockWikidata place
- West India DocksWikidata place
- Canary Wharf PierWikidata place
- Elevator GalleryWikidata place
- West India QuayWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Tower of London2.9 km west
- Curtain Theatre3.1 km west
- The Theatre3.2 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.