LiDAR map of Chigwell
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Chigwell, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 16 listed buildings, 8 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 21 m and 73 m above sea level; its highest point is about 88 m.
Chigwell 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 Chigwell, 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 Chigwell. 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 Chigwell. 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 Chigwell 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 24 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
- 15.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 21–73 m above sea level; highest 88 m
- ONS code
- E04004039
Listed buildings
- Chigwell Grammar School
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Chigwell Hall
- The Kings Head Inn
- Grange Court
- Tailours
- Chapel of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
- Church of All Saints, Chigwell Row
- Haydens Restaurant and Numbers 1 and 2 Haydens
- Table Tomb
- Former King William Iv Public House
- Chigwell Village Stores, Gorgys and Hilltop
- Chigwell Golf Clubhouse
- The Post Office
- Church House
- Chigwell coal duty boundary marker
Other recorded places
- Chigwell Row WoodWikidata place
- Roding Valley MeadowsWikidata place
- Thrift WoodWikidata place
- Hainault depotWikidata place
- Grange HillWikidata place
- Chigwell RowWikidata place
- Chigwell Urban DistrictWikidata place
- ChigwellWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Loughton Camp4.7 km north-west
- Ambresbury Banks6.6 km north
- Barking Abbey9.9 km south
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.