LiDAR map of Lympne
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Lympne, a parish in Kent, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 18 recorded places here: 7 listed buildings, 5 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 23 m and 103 m above sea level; its highest point is about 110 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns, 1 castle, 1 church or chapel and 1 bridge.
Lympne 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 Lympne, 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 Lympne. 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 Lympne. 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 Lympne 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 18 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
- 10.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 18
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 23–103 m above sea level; highest 110 m
- ONS code
- E04005024
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Port LympneRegistered park or garden
- Saxon Shore fort now called Stutfall Castle, 468m south-west of St Stephen's ChurchScheduled monument
- Barrow cemetery to the south-west of BarrowhillScheduled monument
- Round barrow approximately 400m north-east of Upper Otterpool Farmhouse, also known as barrow 136Scheduled monument
- Chapel at Court-at-StreetScheduled monument
- Royal Military Canal, Gigger's Green Bridge to Honeypot CottageScheduled monument
- Portus LemanisAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Lympne EscarpmentWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Castra Lemanis1.5 km south-east
- Westenhanger Castle2.1 km north-east
- Dymchurch Redoubt3.9 km south-east
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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.