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LiDAR map of Lewes
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Lewes, a parish in East Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 194 recorded places here: 106 listed buildings, 72 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 scheduled monuments, 8 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 99 m above sea level; its highest point is about 164 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns.
Lewes 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 Lewes, 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 Lewes. 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 Lewes. 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 72 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Lewes 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 (72 features in the parish) and the 194 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
- 11.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 194
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–99 m above sea level; highest 164 m
- ONS code
- E04003777
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Saxonbury Anglo-Saxon cemeteryScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Cliffe HillScheduled monument
- The Calvary (mound)Scheduled monument
- A platform barrow and two bowl barrows forming a linear barrow group SSE of Offham HillScheduled monument
- Oval barrow on Cliffe Hill 200m south of Bridgwick PitScheduled monument
- A saucer barrow and a bowl barrow 600m north west of Lewes Prison: the southerly pair of a group of three round barrowsScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 700m north west of Lewes Prison: the northerly barrow of a group of three round barrowsScheduled monument
- Lewes Town Wall, section called The Green WallScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Keep to Lewes Castle
- Ruins of Lewes Priory
- Malling House
- Southover Grange
- Harvey's Brewery
- War Memorial
- Jireh Chapel and Sunday School to North
- Anne of Cleves House
- Bull House
- Malling Deanery
- Lewes House
- Church of St Anne
- Church of St Michael and Railings
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Church of St John Sub Castro
- Shelley's Hotel and Railings to South
- Castle Place Nos 165 and 167, and Railings
- Westgate Chapel
- All Saint's Community Centre
- St Michael's Church Hall
- Russian Memorial in the Churchyard of St John Sub
- Freemason's Hall
- Town Hall
- Church of St Thomas at Cliffe
- Churchyard Walls to the Church of St John Sub
- Law Courts
- Crown Hotel
- School Hill House
- Lamb House
- Lewes Prison
and 76 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- HM Prison LewesWikidata place
- Battle of LewesWikidata place
- Lewes Victoria HospitalWikidata place
- Malling DownWikidata place
- Pells PoolWikidata place
- The Dripping PanWikidata place
- Lewes avalancheWikidata place
- Lewes cemeteryWikidata place
- MOTTE\CASTLEAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- HOUSE PLATFORMAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Lewes Castle1.1 km east
- Lewes Priory1.2 km south-east
- Offham Hill Causewayed Enclosure1.7 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.