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LiDAR map of Lancing
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Lancing, a parish in West Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 64 recorded places here: 47 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 listed buildings, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 46 m above sea level; its highest point is about 110 m.
Lancing 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 Lancing, 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 Lancing. 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 Lancing. 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 47 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Lancing 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 (47 features in the parish) and the 64 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
- West Sussex, England
- Area
- 9.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 64
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–46 m above sea level; highest 110 m
- ONS code
- E04009847
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Shoreham Airfield dome trainer, 240m south west of Sussex Pad HotelScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Lancing College, the Chapel
- Lancing College, Great School
- The Parish Church of St James
- Airport Building, Comprising Control Tower
- Lancing College, the East and West Quadrangles
- Municipal Hangar at Brighton City Airport
Other recorded places
- Lancing RingWikidata place
- Lancing Carriage WorksWikidata place
- Widewater LagoonWikidata place
- Lancing railway stationWikidata place
- Bungalow Town Halt railway stationWikidata place
- LancingWikidata place
- Brighton/Worthing/LittlehamptonWikidata place
- LancingWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Shoreham Fort4.2 km east
- Thundersbarrow Hill4.8 km north-east
- Bramber Castle5.6 km north
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.