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LiDAR map of Bircham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bircham, a parish in Norfolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 18 recorded places here: 7 scheduled monuments, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 55 m and 72 m above sea level; its highest point is about 79 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 barrows or cairns.
Bircham 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 Bircham, 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 Bircham. 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 Bircham. 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 Bircham 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
- Norfolk, England
- Area
- 24.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 18
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 55–72 m above sea level; highest 79 m
- ONS code
- E04006288
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow on Bunker's Hill, 1200m north east of Crow HallScheduled monument
- Bell barrow 25m east of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow groupScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 300m south of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow groupScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 425m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow groupScheduled monument
- Bell barrow and moot 600m SSE of Finger Post Plantation: part of Great Bircham barrow groupScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Bunker's Hill, 1070m north east of Crow HallScheduled monument
- Medieval beacon on Bircham CommonScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- RAF Bircham NewtonWikidata place
- Great BirchamWikidata place
- Bircham ToftsWikidata place
- Bircham NewtonWikidata place
- BirchamWikidata place
- BagthorpeWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Coxford Priory8.2 km east
- Bloodgate Hill Iron Age Fort8.7 km north-east
- Creake Abbey11.6 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Harpley
- Houghton
- East Rudham
- Flitcham with Appleton
- Anmer
- Dersingham
- Shernborne
- Fring
- Bagthorpe with Barmer
- Barwick
- Docking
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.