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LiDAR map of Westleton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Westleton, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 43 recorded places here: 33 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 24 m above sea level; its highest point is about 29 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 moated site and 1 barrow or cairn.
Westleton 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 Westleton, 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 Westleton. 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 Westleton. 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 33 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Westleton 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 (33 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
- 22.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 43
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–24 m above sea level; highest 29 m
- ONS code
- E04009477
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Moated site at Lymball's FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow west of Fen Covert, 305m south of Fen CottageScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Minsmere Nature ReserveWikidata place
- Potton Hall Fields, WestletonWikidata place
- Dunwich ForestWikidata place
- MinsmereWikidata place
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- PIT\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SQUARE ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- MOUND\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\WINDMILLAerial survey feature
- BOMB CRATER\GUN EMPLACEMENT\LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT (DIVER) BATTERY\MILITARY TRAININAerial survey feature
- ARMY CAMP\DIVER BATTERYAerial survey feature
- ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY\ARMY CAMP\DIVER BATTERYAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTION\GUN EMPLACEMENT\PILLBOX\PRACTICE TRENCH\WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- BARROW CEMETERY\MOUND\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOMB CRATER\GUN EMPLACEMENT\PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTION\GUN EMPLACEMENT\PILLBOX\PRACTICE TRENCH\WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Greyfriars, Dunwich3.2 km north-east
- Blythburgh Priory6.6 km north
- Sibton Abbey8.4 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.