LiDAR map of St Osyth
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of St Osyth, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 29 recorded places here: 18 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m and 26 m above sea level; its highest point is about 32 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 military site.
St Osyth 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 St Osyth, 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 St Osyth. 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 St Osyth. 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 St Osyth 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 29 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
- 32.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 29
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 1–26 m above sea level; highest 32 m
- ONS code
- E04012802
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Martello tower A and associated battery, Stone PointScheduled monument
- St Osyth's PrioryRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- St Osyth's Priory, Tithe Barn
- St Osyth's Priory boundary walls
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- St Osyth's Priory, Gatehouse and East and West
- St Osyth's Priory ruined east ranges of the Darcy
- St Clere's Hall
- St Osyth's Priory: The Abbot's Lodging and South
- Little Priory the Old House
- The Flag Inn
- White Hart Inn
- The Old Mill House
- Abbey National Building Society Offices Bretts
- Bg Stores at Corner of Colchester Road St Osyth
- Priory Tea House and Bakers Shop Corner of Spring
- Old Mill Cottage
- The Kings Arms
- Waterloo House with Return Shop Front to Clacton
- Milestone on Western Verge
Other recorded places
- Colne Point nature reserveWikidata place
- Riddles WoodWikidata place
- St Osyth PitWikidata place
- Howlands MarshWikidata place
- Row HeathWikidata place
- St Osyth HeathWikidata place
- St OsythWikidata place
- Point ClearWikidata place
- Lee-over-SandsWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Jaywick Martello Tower3.5 km south-east
- Bourne Mill14.0 km north-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.