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LiDAR map of Thetford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Thetford, a parish in Norfolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 144 recorded places here: 69 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 56 listed buildings, 17 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 12 m and 45 m above sea level; its highest point is about 54 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 enclosures and other earthworks, 3 churches or chapels, 2 bridges and 1 monastic site.
Thetford 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 Thetford, 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 Thetford. 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 Thetford. 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 69 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Thetford 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 (69 features in the parish) and the 144 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
- 30.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 144
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 12–45 m above sea level; highest 54 m
- ONS code
- E04013163
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Thetford CastleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Thetford Cluniac priory including a World War II ‘Blacker Bombard’ spigot mortar emplacementScheduled monument
- Castle Hill: motte and bailey castle, Iron Age earthwork enclosure and site of Augustinian friaryScheduled monument
- Thetford Warren LodgeScheduled monument
- Bank and ditchScheduled monument
- An Iron Age religious site and associated enclosures on Gallows Hill, Thetford, immediately to the north of Fison Way industrial estateScheduled monument
- The earthworks and buried remains of the western boundary banks of Thetford Warren, including linked trapping banks and enclosures, along with an associated warrener's house known as Reed Fen LodgeScheduled monument
- Melford BridgeScheduled monument
- Area of Saxon town N of Red CastleScheduled monument
- Site of St Helen's Church with adjacent earthworks and holy wellScheduled monument
- Site of town ditch: Icknield Way allotmentsScheduled monument
- Site of Saxon town: Nuns' Bridges open spaceScheduled monument
- Site of St Ethelred's ChurchScheduled monument
- Part of the Saxon Town of Thetford, including the town boundary, areas of occupation and industry, and the church and churchyard of St JohnScheduled monument
- Site of Saxon town: primary school groundsScheduled monument
- Site of Saxon town: Bury Road allotmentsScheduled monument
- Site of Saxon town: plot on E side of Mill LaneScheduled monument
- Red Castle: a medieval ringwork castle overlying Mid-Saxon and early medieval churches, Romano-British, Saxon and medieval settlement remains, and a Late Saxon town ditchScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Remains of Dominican Church at Thetford Grammar
- Remains of Priory of St Sepulchre
- Ancient House Museum
- Priory Gatehouse
- Nunnery Barn
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Abbey Farm Cottage
- Farm Building
- Fulmerston's Almshouses
- Nunnery Place Ruin
- Thetford War Memorial
- Roman Catholic Church of St Mary and parish hall
- Church of St Peter
- Church of St Mary the Less
- Bell Hotel
- Guildhall
- The Nunnery
- Old Mill Public House, Rudolph's Nite Spot
- Harbord's Almshouses
- Central Hotel
- Thetford Signal Box
- The Presbytery of the Roman Catholic Church of St
- Warehouse
- United Reform Church
- Baptist Chapel
- Forecourt Walls and Gates to United Reform Church
- Shambles Shopping Arcade
- Charles Burrell Museum
- Coffin Cover Immediately North
- Table Tomb
and 26 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Thetford HoardWikidata place
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Thetford Priory1.8 km south-east
- Holy Sepulchre Priory, Thetford2.1 km south-east
- Grime's Graves6.2 km north-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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.