LiDAR map of Harwich
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Harwich, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 72 recorded places here: 60 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 scheduled monuments, 1 wreck. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 22 m above sea level; its highest point is about 29 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 military site and 1 hillfort.
Harwich 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 Harwich, 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 Harwich. 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 Harwich. 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 Harwich 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 72 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
- 6.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 72
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–22 m above sea level; highest 29 m
- ONS code
- E04004099
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Harwich Low LighthouseScheduled monument
- The Harwich RedoubtScheduled monument
- The Harwich Treadwheel CraneScheduled monument
- A Napoleonic coastal battery at Bath Side, 400m north west of Tower HillScheduled monument
- Beacon Hill Fort: a late 19th and 20th century coastal artillery fortificationScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Guildhall
- Electric Palace Cinema
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St Nicholas
- High Lighthouse
- Dovercourt Hall
- The Old Swan House
- War Memorial
- Monument 3 and 1/
- Statue of Queen Victoria
- Pier Hotel
- Old Harbour Antiques
- Monument 10 and 1/
- Alma Inn
- The Ship Restaurant
- Walled Enclosure
- Former Nonconformist church and Railings on South
- Monument
- Monument
- Railings to Former Graveyard
- Monument
- Monument
- Monument
- Monument
- Monument
- Railings to Churchyard of St Nicholas Brick Piers
- Monument
- Monument
- Water Tower
- Alma Inn
and 30 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Dovercourt railway stationWikidata place
- Harwich Town railway stationWikidata place
- DovercourtWikidata place
- Dovercourt High LightWikidata place
- Dovercourt CemeteryWikidata place
- RamseyWikidata place
- Wreck showing any portion of hull or superstructureWreck
Nearest places with their own page
- Beacon Hill Battery2.3 km east
- Harwich High Lighthouse2.5 km north-east
- Harwich Low Lighthouse2.6 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.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.