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LiDAR map of Ipswich
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ipswich, Suffolk, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 235 recorded places here: 134 listed buildings, 65 places recorded in Wikidata, 29 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 registered parks and gardens, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Ipswich lies between about 6 m and 45 m above sea level; its highest point is about 57 m.
Ipswich 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 Ipswich, 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 Ipswich. 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 Ipswich. 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 29 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Ipswich 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 (29 features in this area) and the 235 recorded places in this area, 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
- 39.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 235
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–45 m above sea level; highest 57 m
- ONS code
- E43000134
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Old and New Cemetery, IpswichRegistered park or garden
- Area of Middle and Late Saxon town between Upper Brook Street and Upper Orwell StreetScheduled monument
- Area of Middle and Late Saxon town, off Greyfriars RoadScheduled monument
- Christchurch MansionRegistered park or garden
- Chantry ParkRegistered park or garden
- Castle Hill, WhittonAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- The Willis Building
- The Ancient House
- Christchurch Mansion
- The Margaret Catchpole Public House
- Gippeswyk Hall
- Gateway to Wolsey's College of St Mary
- Great White Horse Hotel
- Unitarian Chapel
- Church of St Mary at Stoke
- Church of St Nicholas
- Sailors Rest
- Church of St Margaret
- Chapel to Ipswich School
- Town Hall
- Church of St Matthew
- Church of St Lawrence
- Church of St Stephen
- St Margaret's Church House
- Ipswich Museum
- Olde Tudor Cafe
- St Michaels Church
- Lodge to Christchurch Mansion
- Cobbolds on the Quay Public House
- Pykenham
- Church of St Mary at the Elms
- Church of St Mary Le Tower
- Church of St Clement
- Warehouse Attached
- Cafe Blanchfleur
- Holywells Park Orangery
and 104 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- East Suffolk County HallWikidata place
- Castle Hill Roman VillaWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Ipswich Blackfriars540 m west
- Gateway to Wolsey's College of St Mary860 m west
- Interrupted ditch system at Potash Farm6.5 km south
Neighbouring parishes
- Wherstead
- Nacton
- Pinewood
- Purdis Farm
- Sproughton
- Rushmere St. Andrew
- Bramford
- Whitton
- Westerfield
- Tuddenham St. Martin
- Akenham
- Claydon
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.