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LiDAR map of Benacre
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Benacre, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 43 recorded places here: 37 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 0 m and 16 m above sea level; its highest point is about 24 m.
Benacre 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 Benacre, 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 Benacre. 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 Benacre. 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 37 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Benacre 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 (37 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
- Suffolk, England
- Area
- 9.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 43
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 0–16 m above sea level; highest 24 m
- ONS code
- E04009486
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Benacre BroadWikidata place
- The Sunrise CoastWikidata place
- Benacre HallWikidata place
- BenacreWikidata place
- TANK TRAPAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD SYSTEM\IRREGULAR ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- ANTI TANK DITCH\TANK TRAPAerial survey feature
- PIT\PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD SYSTEM\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (VARIANT)Aerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD SYSTEM\RING DITCH\ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- DEER PARK\DESERTED SETTLEMENT\FIELD SYSTEM\PARK\PARK PALE\RIDGE AND FURROW\TRACKAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROW\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Blythburgh Priory10.8 km south-west
- Greyfriars, Dunwich14.4 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.