LiDAR map of Medway
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Medway, Kent, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 259 recorded places here: 151 listed buildings, 72 places recorded in Wikidata, 15 scheduled monuments, 11 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 wrecks. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Medway lies between about 6 m and 115 m above sea level; its highest point is about 168 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 military sites and 1 barrow or cairn.
Medway 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 Medway, 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 Medway. 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 Medway. 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 11 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Medway 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 (11 features in this area) and the 259 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
- 67.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 259
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–115 m above sea level; highest 168 m
- ONS code
- E43000030
Places with their own page
- /places/fort-borstal/
- /places/fort-horsted/
- /places/rochester-castle/
- /places/temple-manor/
- /places/fort-darnet/
- /places/fort-luton/
- /places/fort-clarence/
- /places/old-brook-pumping-station/
- /places/fort-pitt/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Fort ClarenceScheduled monument
- Fort PittScheduled monument
- Chatham Dockyard, stables adjacent to terraceScheduled monument
- Fort LutonScheduled monument
- Fort HorsteadScheduled monument
- Fort BorstalScheduled monument
- Fort Darnet, Darnet NessScheduled monument
- Chatham Lines, section at Chatham Gun WharfScheduled monument
- Chatham Dockyard, Sail LoftScheduled monument
- Brook Low Level Pumping StationScheduled monument
- Site of 17th century dockyardScheduled monument
- Brompton LinesScheduled monument
- Chatham Dockyard, Officers' Terrace and gardens to eastScheduled monument
- Bell barrow in Shoulder of Mutton WoodScheduled monument
- Chatham Dockyard, the Expense Account Department, Wages DivisionScheduled monument
- DurobrivaeAncient place (Pleiades)
- Rochester CastleAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Kings School and Cathedral Visitors Centre
- Rochester Castle
- Rochester City Walls
- Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel
- Chatham Naval War Memorial
- Eastgate House
- Temple Manor
- Brompton Barracks, Gymnasium
- Cloister Gate
- Chatham Memorial Synagogue
- Main Gate
- The Brunel Saw Mill
- St Bartholomews Chapel
- Former Mast House and Mould Loft
- Numbers 4 5 and 6 Slip Covers and Machine Shop
- George Vaults
- Gordon Hotel
- Number 3 Slip Cover
- Public Library
- The Ropery and Spinning Room
- Former Storehouse Number 3 and Former Chain Cable
- Former Storehouse Number 2 and Former Rigging
- Former Lead and Paint Mill
- Number 7 Slip Cover and Machine Shop Number 3
- Chertsey's Gate
- Restoration House
- Church of St Margaret
- South Block
- The Guildhall
- Gillingham War Memorial
and 121 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- HM Prison Cookham WoodWikidata place
- Gillingham Fair fire disasterWikidata place
- Raid on the MedwayWikidata place
- Fort BridgewoodsWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Fort Luton1.3 km west
- Old Brook Pumping Station2.1 km north-west
- Fort Horsted2.7 km south-west
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.