LiDAR map of Basildon
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Basildon, Essex, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 45 recorded places here: 33 places recorded in Wikidata, 10 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Basildon lies between about 11 m and 56 m above sea level; its highest point is about 118 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 moated sites.
Basildon 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 Basildon, 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 Basildon. 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 Basildon. 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 Basildon 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 45 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
- Essex, England
- Area
- 43.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 45
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 11–56 m above sea level; highest 118 m
- ONS code
- E43000282
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Moat at Basildon HallScheduled monument
- Moated site and fishponds at BotelersScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Nicholas
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St Peter
- Church of Holy Cross
- Church of St Michael
- Barstable School
- War Memorial
- Church of St Mary
- Raised Pool and Sculpture
- The Five Bell Inn
Other recorded places
- Basildon MeadowsWikidata place
- Vange HillWikidata place
- Langdon Nature ReserveWikidata place
- Basildon University HospitalWikidata place
- Wat Tyler Country ParkWikidata place
- Chalvedon SchoolWikidata place
- Festival Leisure ParkWikidata place
- Fryerns Comprehensive SchoolWikidata place
- Gloucester Park, BasildonWikidata place
- Northlands Park, BasildonWikidata place
- Vange Anti-Aircraft Operations RoomWikidata place
- VangeWikidata place
- Basildon railway stationWikidata place
- Laindon railway stationWikidata place
- Pitsea railway stationWikidata place
- Dunton Technical CentreWikidata place
- BasildonWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Rayleigh Castle10.8 km east
- Hadleigh Castle11.1 km east
- Cliffe Fort11.4 km south
Neighbouring parishes
- Thurrock
- Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet
- West Horndon
- Noak Bridge
- Herongate and Ingrave
- Little Burstead
- Ramsden Crays
- Great Burstead and South Green
- Wickford
- Ramsden Bellhouse
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.