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LiDAR map of Finchingfield
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Finchingfield, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 27 recorded places here: 16 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 1 registered park or garden, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 70 m and 99 m above sea level; its highest point is about 115 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 moated sites.
Finchingfield 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 Finchingfield, 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 Finchingfield. 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 Finchingfield. 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 Finchingfield 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 27 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
- 33.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 27
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 70–99 m above sea level; highest 115 m
- ONS code
- E04003897
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Spains HallRegistered park or garden
- Great Winsey moated site and fishpond, 1.4km south west of Finchingfield churchScheduled monument
- Cornish Hall moated site and fishpond, 750m south of Cornish Hall End churchScheduled monument
- Brockhold Farm moated siteScheduled monument
- Jekyll's Farm moated site and fishpondScheduled monument
- FinchingfieldAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Spains Hall
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- The Guildhall
- Springmede
- Former Finchingfield Congregational Church
- Cold War nuclear bomb stores and sidewinder
- The Windmill
- The Old Smithy
- Byre
- The Red Lion Inn
- Bosworths Tearooms and Finchingfield Antiques
- The Fox Inn
- The Pump House
- Mill Barn
- The Kicking Dicky
- Mill Cottage immediately
Other recorded places
- RAF WethersfieldWikidata place
- Cornish Hall EndWikidata place
- Howe StreetWikidata place
- FinchingfieldWikidata place
- Cornish Hall End CemeteryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Hedingham Castle9.2 km east
- Bocking Windmill10.0 km south-east
- Castle Camps11.5 km north-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Shalford
- Great Bardfield
- Wethersfield
- Little Sampford
- Great Sampford
- Toppesfield
- Hempstead
- Stambourne
- Steeple Bumpstead
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.