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LiDAR map of Portsmouth
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Portsmouth, Hampshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 466 recorded places here: 199 listed buildings, 177 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 73 places recorded in Wikidata, 12 scheduled monuments, 3 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Portsmouth lies between about 2 m and 35 m above sea level; its highest point is about 128 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 military sites, 1 castle and 1 church or chapel.
Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth, 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 Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. The records hold 177 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Portsmouth 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 (177 features in this area) and the 466 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
- Hampshire, England
- Area
- 40.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 466
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–35 m above sea level; highest 128 m
- ONS code
- E43000035
Places with their own page
- /places/lumps-fort/
- /places/hilsea-lines/
- /places/spitbank-fort/
- /places/fort-widley/
- /places/portsmouth-block-mills/
- /places/portsmouth-garrison-church/
- /places/southsea-castle/
- /places/fort-cumberland/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Southsea CastleScheduled monument
- Spitbank FortScheduled monument
- Portsmouth Garrison churchScheduled monument
- Portsmouth Dockyard: dockyard basin and six surrounding dry docks, as well as sections of sea wall and a network of culvertsScheduled monument
- Fort CumberlandScheduled monument
- Hilsea LinesScheduled monument
- Lumps Fort and practice batteryScheduled monument
- Former Board of Ordnance Gunwharf, HMS VernonScheduled monument
- Long Curtain, King's Bastion and Spur RedoubtScheduled monument
- Pickett Hamilton fort, HilseaScheduled monument
- Eastney forts and perimeter defences of barracksScheduled monument
- Eastney sewage pumping stationScheduled monument
- Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden
- Kingston CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Southsea CommonRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- The Round Tower
- The Square Tower
- Fort Widley
- Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum
- Portsmouth Naval War Memorial
- Fort Southwick, That Part in Portsmouth Civil
- Fort Cumberland
- Block Mill and Numbers 35 and 36 Stores
- Wymering Manor
- City of Portsmouth War Memorial
- Theatre Royal
- Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist
- Eastney Barracks, Eastney Fort East
- Number 11 Store
- Cathedral Church of St Thomas
- Fort Purbrook, That Part in Portsmouth Church
- Number 9 Store
- Eastney Barracks, Eastney Fort West
- Landport Gate
- Church of St Mary, Kingston
- Church of St Agatha
- Number 10 Store
- South Office Block
- St James Hospital Chapel
- Dockyard Wall Victory Gate and Dockyard Wall
- The Beneficial School
- The Kings Theatre, with numbers 24-28
- Mill Dam House
- Buckingham House
- Porters Lodge
and 169 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- HM Prison KingstonWikidata place
- Siege of PortsmouthWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Portsmouth Block Mills2.8 km west
- Hilsea Lines2.9 km north
- Lumps Fort3.0 km south
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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.