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LiDAR map of Bury St Edmunds
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bury St Edmunds, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 214 recorded places here: 199 listed buildings, 14 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 33 m and 65 m above sea level; its highest point is about 82 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 monastic site.
Bury St Edmunds 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 Bury St Edmunds, 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 Bury St Edmunds. 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 Bury St Edmunds. 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 Bury St Edmunds 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 214 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
- 18.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 214
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 33–65 m above sea level; highest 82 m
- ONS code
- E04013227
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Babwell Friary (remains of)Scheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Norman Tower
- Moyses Hall
- Ruins of Abbey Church of St Edmund
- Northgate House
- Market Cross
- Ruins of Chapel of the Charnel
- Moreton Hall School
- North Wall of Great Court of the Abbey
- Ruins
- Provosts House and Number 4 Churchyard
- Abbey House
- Baret House
- St Saviours Hospital
- Manchester House
- St Andrews Castle
- Ruins of Hall of Pleas and South Wall of Great
- Precinct Wall
- Tower House
- Unitarian Chapel
- Church of St Mary
- Athenaeum
- Cathedral Church of St James
- Theatre Royal
- The Guildhall
- Precinct Wall on South
- Roman Catholic Church of St Edmund King and Martyr
- Ruins to East
- Ruins of Abbey Dovecote and Part of Wall
- Abbey Gate and Gatehouse
- Precinct Wall
and 169 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- West Suffolk HouseWikidata place
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustWikidata place
- Moreton Hall Community WoodsWikidata place
- Sound TechniquesWikidata place
- King's Road drill hall, Bury St EdmundsWikidata place
- West Suffolk HospitalWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Black Ditches, Cavenham9.7 km north-west
- Great Ashfield Castle13.6 km east
- Upthorpe Mill14.3 km north-east
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.