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LiDAR map of Martlesham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Martlesham, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 44 recorded places here: 24 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 scheduled monuments, 4 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 4 m and 29 m above sea level; its highest point is about 35 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 barrows or cairns.
Martlesham 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 Martlesham, 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 Martlesham. 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 Martlesham. 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 24 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Martlesham 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 (24 features in the parish) and the 44 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
- 10.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 44
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–29 m above sea level; highest 35 m
- ONS code
- E04013241
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow 580m north of Dobbs CornerScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 680m north of Dobbs CornerScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Portal AvenueScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow and pill box 450m north west of Sheep Drift FarmScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows in Spratt's Plantation.Scheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Lancaster Drive, Martlesham HeathScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Birch Grove, Martlesham HeathScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- RAF Martlesham HeathWikidata place
- Waldringfield PitWikidata place
- Martlesham WildsWikidata place
- Adastral ParkWikidata place
- Centre for Integrated PhotonicsWikidata place
- Martlesham HeathWikidata place
- MartleshamWikidata place
- RAF Martlesham Heath MemorialWikidata place
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SQUARE ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM\HOUSE\HUT CIRCLE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\RING DITCH\ROUND HOUSE (DOMEAerial survey feature
- BARRACKS\CONTROL TOWER\HANGAR\MILITARY AIRFIELD\TELEPHONE EXCHANGEAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARRACKS\CONTROL TOWER\HANGAR\MILITARY AIRFIELD\TELEPHONE EXCHANGEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Lady Alice Kenlis3.6 km north-east
- Sutton Hoo3.9 km north-east
- Ipswich Blackfriars9.3 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.