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LiDAR map of Burnham-on-Crouch
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Burnham-on-Crouch, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 21 recorded places here: 11 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m and 23 m above sea level; its highest point is about 39 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 industrial site.
Burnham-on-Crouch 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 Burnham-on-Crouch, 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 Burnham-on-Crouch. 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 Burnham-on-Crouch. 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 Burnham-on-Crouch 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 21 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
- Essex, England
- Area
- 21.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 21
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 1–23 m above sea level; highest 39 m
- ONS code
- E04004044
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- World War II minefield control tower 940m and pillbox 980m south east of Holliwell FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Creeksea Place
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Burnham-on-Crouch War Memorial
- Moorings and Quayside
- The Star Hotel
- Mill House
- Church of All Saints
- Cherry Garden
- Ye Olde White Harte Hotel
- The Anchor Hotel
- The School and Clock Tower
Other recorded places
- Burnham-on-Crouch Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- Burnham-on-Crouch & District MuseumWikidata place
- Mangapps Railway MuseumWikidata place
- Rio CinemaWikidata place
- Burnham-on-Crouch railway stationWikidata place
- Creeksea PlaceWikidata place
- CreekseaWikidata place
- OstendWikidata place
- Burnham-on-Crouch CemeteryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Shoeburyness Boom12.6 km south
- Danish Camp13.0 km south
- Prittlewell Priory13.9 km south-west
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.