LiDAR map of Sheerness
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Sheerness, a parish in Kent, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 31 recorded places here: 25 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m and 5 m above sea level; its highest point is about 16 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 military site.
Sheerness 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 Sheerness, 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 Sheerness. 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 Sheerness. 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 Sheerness 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 31 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
- 5.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 31
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 1–5 m above sea level; highest 16 m
- ONS code
- E04012936
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Sheerness defencesScheduled monument
- Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre BastionScheduled monument
- Queenborough LinesScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Shed Number 78 the Boat Store Building Number 78
- Sheerness War Memorial
- Numbers 1 to 15
- Walls and Gates of the Boat Basin, Docks Number 4
- Former Royal Dockyard Church
- Former North Saw Pits Building Number 84
- Medway Ports Authority Offices
- Former Working Mast House Building Number 26
- Archway House Building Number 23
- Former Military Hospital
- Red Lion Public House
- Remains of Cornmill to Rear of Number 111
- King William Lion Monument
- Roman Catholic Church of St Henry and St Elizabeth
- Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
- Outbuilding to Rear of the Royal Fountain Hotel
- The Royal Fountain Hotel
- Former Sawmill, Building Numbers 105, 106 and 107
- Memorial to Thomas Stuteley in Holy Trinity
- Clock Tower
- Former County Court
- Former Pay Office Building Number 104
- A G Smith and Sons Depository
- Bethel Chapel Sunday School
- Remains of Windmill in Grounds of Seaview Hotel
Other recorded places
- Sheerness Dockyard railway stationWikidata place
- SheernessWikidata place
- Rose Street Cottage of CuriositiesWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Queenborough Castle1.8 km south
- Danish Camp10.8 km north
- Shoeburyness Boom11.2 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.