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LiDAR map of Firle
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Firle, a parish in East Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 11 scheduled monuments, 9 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 5 m and 145 m above sea level; its highest point is about 218 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 10 barrows or cairns.
Firle 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 Firle, 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 Firle. 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 Firle. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Firle 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 and the 24 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
- East Sussex, England
- Area
- 13.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–145 m above sea level; highest 218 m
- ONS code
- E04003772
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Firle Beacon round barrow and two adjacent round barrows, West FirleScheduled monument
- A pair of bowl barrows 420m south of Overhill Lodge, forming part of The Lord's Burghs linear barrow groupScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 500m south of Overhill Lodge, forming part of The Lord's Burghs linear barrow groupScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Beddingham Hill, 465m north east of the radio mastScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Beddingham Hill, 615m north east of the radio mastScheduled monument
- A saucer barrow, a bowl barrow and a pair of hlaews 350m north west of Overhill LodgeScheduled monument
- Three hlaews 400m north east of Overhill LodgeScheduled monument
- A pair of bowl barrows 500m north east of Overhill LodgeScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 500m west of Firle BeaconScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 290m west of Firle BeaconScheduled monument
- Oval barrow and adjacent bowl barrow, 220m west of Firle BeaconScheduled monument
- Firle PlaceRegistered park or garden
- Reg(i)noiAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Firle Place
- The Parish Church of St Peter
- Charleston
- Firle Place Riding School of Firle Place
- The Ram Inn
- Premises of Peter Robinson
- Firle Post Office S C Fletcher's Stores
- The Stables of the Ram Inn
- Remains of a Way-side Cross to the South
Other recorded places
- Firle CornWikidata place
- Science and Technology Policy ResearchWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Mount Caburn3.9 km north-west
- Lewes Priory6.9 km west
- Wilmington Priory7.1 km south-east
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.