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LiDAR map of Hastings
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Hastings, East Sussex, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 167 recorded places here: 91 listed buildings, 37 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 32 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Hastings lies between about 11 m and 127 m above sea level; its highest point is about 176 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 churches or chapels and 1 hillfort.
Hastings 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 Hastings, 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 Hastings. 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 Hastings. 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 37 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Hastings 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 (37 features in this area) and the 167 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
- 29.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 167
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 11–127 m above sea level; highest 176 m
- ONS code
- E43000056
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hastings Town WallScheduled monument
- Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden
- East Hill, HastingsAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Manor house (remains of), Ore PlaceScheduled monument
- Iron Age cliff castle and site of St George's churchyard on East HillScheduled monument
- St Mary's Chapel, Bulverhythe (remains of)Scheduled monument
- Old St Helen's Church, OreScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Hastings Castle
- Christ Church
- Old Hastings House
- Net and Tackle Stores on Beach
- The Town Hall
- Windycroft
- Church of St Leonard
- Ebenezer Particular Baptist Chapel
- Statue of Queen Anne South
- Church of St Leonard in the Wood
- Church of St Leonard
- Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and the English
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- The Clock House
- Church of St Matthew
- Baptist Church
- Church of All Souls
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St Mary in the Castle
- Church of St Peter
- Christ Church
- The Stables Theatre
- Baldslow Windmill
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Crown House
- Chapel to the Former Convent of the Holy Child
- Church of St Clement
- Christ Church
- The Cupola
- Queens Arcade, Hastings
and 61 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Hastings PrioryWikidata place
- Hastings Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- St Helen's WoodWikidata place
- Horntye Park Sports ComplexWikidata place
- Church Wood and Robsack WoodWikidata place
- Hastings Unitarian ChurchWikidata place
- St Luke's Church, SilverhillWikidata place
- Alexandra ParkWikidata place
- Hastings Museum and Art GalleryWikidata place
- Speckled Wood, HastingsWikidata place
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustWikidata place
- Hastings CemeteryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Manor house (remains of), Ore Place1.5 km north
- Battle Abbey8.3 km north-west
- Camber Castle13.1 km north-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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.