LiDAR map of Dartford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Dartford, Kent, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 54 recorded places here: 29 listed buildings, 21 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Dartford lies between about 2 m and 48 m above sea level; its highest point is about 85 m.
Dartford 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 Dartford, 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 Dartford. 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 Dartford. 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 Dartford 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 54 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
- Kent, England
- Area
- 24.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 54
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–48 m above sea level; highest 85 m
- ONS code
- E43000286
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Palaeolithic sites near Baker's HoleScheduled monument
- Faesten Dic, a medieval frontier work in Joydens WoodScheduled monument
- VagniacisAncient place (Pleiades)
- Northfleet VillaAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Royal Victoria and Bull Inn
- Priory Farmhouse Containing the Remains
- Mortuary Chapel at Watling Street Burial Ground
- Zion Strict Baptist Chapel
- Martyr's Monument in St Edmund's Chartered
- Dartford War Memorial
- War Memorial in the churchyard of St Alban's
- St Edmund's Chartered Churchyard
- Methodist Church
- Christ Church
- Coal Duty Boundary Marker at Junction
- The Wat Tyler Public House
- The Royal Oak Public House
- Twistleton's Almshouses
- Grammar School
- The Coach and Horses Public House
- Coal Duty Boundary Marker
- Former West Hill Police Station
- Former Dartford Union Workhouse Buildings to Rear
- Range of Former Dartford Union Workhouse Facing
- The Two Brewers Public House
- Dartford Museum Dartford Public Library
- Kent House the County Court
- Remains of Priory Walls in Victoria Road
- Post at North West Corner of Road at Junction
- Post on East Side, Just
- Milestone
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Baker's HoleWikidata place
- Noviomagus CantiacorumWikidata place
- Long Reach sewage treatment worksWikidata place
- Dartford Civic CentreWikidata place
- Joyce Green HospitalWikidata place
- Orchard TheatreWikidata place
- Dartford HeathWikidata place
- Bexley HospitalWikidata place
- Princes ParkWikidata place
- Littlebrook Power StationWikidata place
- North Kent CollegeWikidata place
- The Mick Jagger CentreWikidata place
- Wansunt PitWikidata place
- Dartford railway stationWikidata place
- Ebbsfleet International railway stationWikidata place
- Long ReachWikidata place
- Springhead ParkWikidata place
- Ebbsfleet ValleyWikidata place
- Temple HillWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- St Botolph's Church, Ruxley6.3 km south-west
- Lesnes Abbey7.6 km north-west
- Shrewsbury Barrow10.3 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Swanley
- Southfleet
- Darenth
- Bean
- Gravesham
- Stone
- Swanscombe and Greenhithe
- Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley
- Wilmington
- Bexley
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.