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LiDAR map of Brighton and Hove
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 541 recorded places here: 298 listed buildings, 127 places recorded in Wikidata, 98 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 11 scheduled monuments, 3 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Brighton and Hove lies between about 24 m and 133 m above sea level; its highest point is about 197 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns, 1 enclosure or other earthwork, 1 castle and 1 field system.
Brighton and Hove 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 Brighton and Hove, 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 Brighton and Hove. 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 Brighton and Hove. 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 98 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Brighton and Hove 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 (98 features in this area) and the 541 recorded places in this area, 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
- East Sussex, England
- Area
- 78.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 541
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 24–133 m above sea level; highest 197 m
- ONS code
- E43000034
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hollingbury CastleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Whitehawk Camp causewayed enclosureScheduled monument
- Section of Port's Road and barrow on Round Hill, HangletonScheduled monument
- Castle Hill earthworkScheduled monument
- Earthworks and lynchets near Eastwick Barn, PatchamScheduled monument
- Ewe Bottom entrenchment, PatchamScheduled monument
- A saucer barrow and three bowl barrows on Tegdown HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Great WoodScheduled monument
- A group of three bowl barrows and an Anglo-Saxon barrow field on The BostleScheduled monument
- Prehistoric linear boundary and Bronze Age bowl barrow in Pudding Bag Wood, 350m south of Upper LodgesScheduled monument
- Cross dyke in Great Wood, 500m south west of Stanmer HouseScheduled monument
- Queen's Park, BrightonRegistered park or garden
- Preston Manor and Preston ParkRegistered park or garden
- Woodvale CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Medieval settlement at StanmerScheduled monument
- West BlatchingtonAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- North Gate of the Royal Pavilion
- Arundel House
- The Chapel Royal
- The Royal Pavilion
- Stanmer House
- Church of St Andrew
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Hangleton Manor Inn the Old Manor House
- London Road Railway Viaduct
- Palmeira Mansions
- Ovingdean Rectory
- Patcham Place
- West Blatchington Windmill
- Saltdean Lido
- Brighton Hippodrome
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St Andrew
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Church of St Wulfran
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Tower House
- The Corn Exchange and Dome Theatre
- Embassy Court
- Nos 1-29
- Nos 20-32
- Nos 7-19
- Numbers 41-50
- Remains of Medieval Manorhouse
- Bishop Hannington Memorial Church
- Methodist Church
and 268 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Brighton & Hove PrideWikidata place
- Brighton hotel bombingWikidata place
- Brighton MarathonWikidata place
- Preston BarracksWikidata place
- Hounsom Memorial ChurchWikidata place
- HMS King AlfredWikidata place
- Patcham TunnelWikidata place
- William Clarke ParkWikidata place
- Brighton MarinaWikidata place
- Galeed Strict Baptist Chapel, BrightonWikidata place
- Brighton and Hove Progressive SynagogueWikidata place
- Woodingdean Water WellWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Whitehawk Camp3.7 km south-east
- Portslade Manor4.6 km west
- Thundersbarrow Hill7.2 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Telscombe
- Rodmell
- Iford
- Kingston near Lewes
- Rottingdean
- Falmer
- Fulking
- Poynings
- Newtimber
- Pyecombe
- Ditchling
- Adur
- Upper Beeding
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Plaques: Open Plaques, public domain.
Last updated 2026-10-16.