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LiDAR map of Rottingdean
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rottingdean, a parish in East Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 32 recorded places here: 15 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 12 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 lost settlement. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 30 m and 104 m above sea level; its highest point is about 130 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 long barrows or chambered tombs.
Rottingdean 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 Rottingdean, 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 Rottingdean. 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 Rottingdean. 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 15 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Rottingdean 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 (15 features in the parish) and the 32 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
- 4.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 32
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 30–104 m above sea level; highest 130 m
- ONS code
- E04001292
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Long Barrow on Beacon HillScheduled monument
- Long barrow on Beacon Hill, 160m north west of the windmillScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Margaret
- Down House
- Court House and Numbers 1 and 2 Court House Close
- The Old Farmhouse
- Hillside
- Rottingdean Windmill at Ngr 365 024
- Six Tombs in the Churchyard of the Church of St
- The Black Horse Public House
- War memorial on the former St Aubyns School
- Walls and Lych Gate to Churchyard of the Church
- Rottingdean Club
- Olde Place Hotel
Other recorded places
- RottingdeanWikidata place
- BalsdeanWikidata place
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY DITCH\DITCHED ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ANTI TANK OBSTACLEAerial survey feature
- ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLYAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BalsdeanLost settlement
Nearest places with their own page
- Whitehawk Camp4.3 km west
- Lewes Priory7.5 km north-east
- Lewes Castle8.0 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.