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LiDAR map of Sprowston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Sprowston, a parish in Norfolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 39 recorded places here: 31 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 26 m and 36 m above sea level; its highest point is about 43 m.
Sprowston 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 Sprowston, 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 Sprowston. 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 Sprowston. 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 31 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Sprowston 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 (31 features in the parish) and the 39 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
- 9.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 39
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 26–36 m above sea level; highest 43 m
- ONS code
- E04006250
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of St Mary and St Margaret
- Sprowston St Cuthbert War Memorial
- Wall, Gates and Gatepiers of Churchyard of Parish
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Sprowston Community High SchoolWikidata place
- Sprowston ManorWikidata place
- Norwich Royal Observer Corps Group HeadquartersWikidata place
- SprowstonWikidata place
- ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY\BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTION\GUN LAYING RADAR PLATFORM\MILITARYAerial survey feature
- NISSEN HUT\PILLBOX\SEARCHLIGHT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- DITCH\ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DITCH\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARRAGE BALLOON SITE\BLAST WALL\MILITARY BUILDING\PRACTICE TRENCH\ROYAL OBSERVERAerial survey feature
- ACCOMMODATION HUT\ARMY CAMP\BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER\DOMESTIC SITE\HUT\NISSEN HUAerial survey feature
- BLAST WALL\MILITARY BUILDING\STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\DITCH\DRAINAGE DITCH\ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- DITCH\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BLAST WALL\MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- PIT\RIDGE AND FURROW\RING DITCH\STACK STANDAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITE\PRACTICE TRENCH\SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BLAST WALL\DITCH\MILITARY TRAINING SITE\NISSEN HUT\PRACTICE TREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cow Tower3.5 km south-west
- Bishop Bridge3.6 km south-west
- St. Leonard's Priory, Norwich3.7 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.