LiDAR map of Darenth
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Darenth, a parish in Kent, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 15 recorded places here: 6 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 20 m and 72 m above sea level; its highest point is about 88 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site.
Darenth 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 Darenth, 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 Darenth. 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 Darenth. 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 Darenth 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 15 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
- Kent, England
- Area
- 7.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 15
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 20–72 m above sea level; highest 88 m
- ONS code
- E04012918
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Darenth ParkScheduled monument
- A major Roman villa, an Anglo-Saxon settlement and prehistoric remains 600m SSE of Darenth Court FarmScheduled monument
- Medieval woodland boundary in Darenth WoodScheduled monument
- DarenthAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Margaret
- Wooden Graveboard in the Churchyard of St
- Mill House
- The Forge House
- The Chequers Inn and Ivy Cottage
- Ice House in Grounds of Clock House
Other recorded places
- Darenth WoodWikidata place
- Darenth Country ParkWikidata place
- Darent Valley HospitalWikidata place
- Darenth Park HospitalWikidata place
- DarenthWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Gravesend Blockhouse8.0 km east
- Tilbury Fort8.6 km north-east
- St Botolph's Church, Ruxley9.0 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Horton Kirby and South Darenth
- Longfield and New Barn
- Southfleet
- Bean
- Dartford
- Stone
- Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.