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LiDAR map of Poynings
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Poynings, a parish in West Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 19 recorded places here: 11 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 scheduled monuments, 2 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 43 m and 181 m above sea level; its highest point is about 216 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 hillfort, 1 barrow or cairn, 1 Roman site and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Poynings 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 Poynings, 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 Poynings. 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 Poynings. 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 11 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Poynings 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 (11 features in the parish) and the 19 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
- 6.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 19
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 43–181 m above sea level; highest 216 m
- ONS code
- E04009994
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Devil's Dyke hillfortScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Scabes CastleScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead 480m north west of Devil's Dyke CottagesScheduled monument
- Post-medieval stock enclosure at Devil's DykeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Devil's DykeWikidata place
- The Dyke railway stationWikidata place
- AERIAL ROPEWAY\FAIRAerial survey feature
- FUNICULAR RAILWAY\FAIRAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDING\MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- PLATFORMAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROW\BARROW CEMETERYAerial survey feature
- PLATFORMAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
- RAILWAY\WEAPONS TESTING SITEAerial survey feature
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Edburton Castle Ring2.2 km west
- Thundersbarrow Hill4.6 km south-west
- Portslade Manor5.5 km south
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.