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LiDAR map of Long Melford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Long Melford, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 54 recorded places here: 45 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 registered parks and gardens, 2 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 35 m and 77 m above sea level; its highest point is about 86 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 Roman sites.
Long Melford 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 Long Melford, 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 Long Melford. 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 Long Melford. 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 Long Melford 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 54 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
- 21.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 54
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 35–77 m above sea level; highest 86 m
- ONS code
- E04009110
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Melford HallRegistered park or garden
- Kentwell HallRegistered park or garden
- Roman villa at Liston LaneScheduled monument
- Roman villa NE of Rodbridge HouseScheduled monument
- Long MelfordAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Melford Hall
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Trinity Hospital Trinity Hosptial
- Kentwell Hall
- Water Conduit
- Chapel at Melford Place
- Dovecote to the South
- Pound Hall
- Bull Hotel
- The Elms
- Bourchier Galleries, House and Shop
- Gateway and Lodges to Melford Hall
- Bridge Street Farmhouse
- Brook House
- Summer House at Melford Hall
- The Gate House, Corpus Christi and Oaken
- Cobblers
- Former Congregational Chapel
- St Mary's
- Angelas Boutique
- Long Melford Saddlery
- Village Clocks
- Scutchers Arms
- Cock and Bell Hotel
- Barclays Bank and Long Melford Post Office
- The Swan Inn
- Maltings and Granary
- White Hart Inn
- Church House Mill Ford House West Lynn
- Serpentine Wall Enclosing Gardens at the Rear
and 15 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Long Melford railway stationWikidata place
- Rodbridge CornerWikidata place
- Bridge StreetWikidata place
- Sue Ryder Foundation MuseumWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Milden Castle7.9 km east
- Clare Castle9.9 km west
- Clare Priory10.1 km 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.