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LiDAR map of Horsford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Horsford, a parish in Norfolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 43 recorded places here: 35 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 21 m and 36 m above sea level; its highest point is about 41 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle and 1 barrow or cairn.
Horsford 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 Horsford, 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 Horsford. 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 Horsford. 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 35 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Horsford 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 (35 features in the parish) and the 43 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
- 16.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 43
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 21–36 m above sea level; highest 41 m
- ONS code
- E04006232
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Horsford CastleScheduled monument
- Two round barrows on Horsford HeathScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Manor Park, HorsfordWikidata place
- HorsfordWikidata place
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BARBICAN\CASTLE\DITCH\KEEP\MOTTE AND BAILEYAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\ENCLOSURE\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM\PIT\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENT\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\FINDSPOT\LINEAR FEATURE\MORTUARY ENCLOSURE\RECTANGULARAerial survey feature
- BARROW\BARROW CEMETERY\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\SQUARE ENCLOSURE\TOFTAerial survey feature
- CAUSEWAY\ENCLOSURE\FIELD SYSTEM\TOFT\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- DITCH\ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DITCH\FIELD BOUNDARY\RING DITCH\ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)Aerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BOUNDARY DITCH\CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE\DITCH\ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNAerial survey feature
- DITCH\LINEAR FEATURE\OVAL ENCLOSURE\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\HOUSE\RABBIT WARREN\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\DITCH\LINEAR FEATURE\PRACTICE TRENCH\RABBIT WARRENAerial survey feature
- DITCH\PRACTICE TRENCH\SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Horsford Castle1.1 km south-east
- Church of St Theobald7.7 km north-east
- St Lawrence's Well, Lower Westick Street8.1 km south
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.