LiDAR map of Maidstone
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Maidstone, Kent, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 105 recorded places here: 75 listed buildings, 26 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments, 1 registered park or garden, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Maidstone lies between about 17 m and 86 m above sea level; its highest point is about 104 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 industrial site.
Maidstone 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 Maidstone, 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 Maidstone. 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 Maidstone. 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 Maidstone 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 105 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
- 20.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 105
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 17–86 m above sea level; highest 104 m
- ONS code
- E43000297
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Tithe barn, Mill StreetScheduled monument
- The College of All SaintsScheduled monument
- Mote ParkRegistered park or garden
- MaidstoneAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Allington Castle
- The Archbishop's Palace
- The Town Hall
- The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Officers Quarters, Maidstone Former Cavalry
- Former Church of St Peter
- Maidstone Borough War Memorial
- Mote House
- The Corpus Christi Hall
- Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery
- Romney House
- The Old Farmhouse
- Park House
- Little Buckland Farm Cottage
- Stone House Or the Judges Lodgings
- Turkey Court
- Grove House
- Willington Place
- Farm Cottages
- Theatre at Maidstone Prison
- Cannon on Plinth
- Phoenix Chambers
- Royal Albion
- The Old Sessions House
- Statue Set on Stone Plinth
- The Old Water Conduit
- Church of St Luke
- The Unitarian Church
- Church of Holy Trinity
and 45 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- HM Prison MaidstoneWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Tithe Barn, Maidstone650 m south
- College of All Saints, Maidstone830 m south
- Boxley Abbey2.6 km north
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.