LiDAR map of Thurrock
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Thurrock, Essex, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 176 recorded places here: 83 places recorded in Wikidata, 72 listed buildings, 14 scheduled monuments, 4 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Thurrock lies between about 2 m and 28 m above sea level; its highest point is about 117 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 military sites, 2 enclosures and other earthworks, 1 church or chapel and 1 moated site.
Thurrock 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 Thurrock, 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 Thurrock. 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 Thurrock. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. The records hold 4 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Thurrock 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 (4 features in this area) and the 176 recorded places in this area, 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
- 163.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 176
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–28 m above sea level; highest 117 m
- ONS code
- E43000029
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Tilbury FortScheduled monument
- Langdon HillsAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Earthworks near church, West TilburyScheduled monument
- Gatehouse and moat of South Ockenden Old HallScheduled monument
- Crop mark complex, OrsettScheduled monument
- Causewayed enclosure and Anglo-Saxon cemetery 500m ENE of Heath PlaceScheduled monument
- Springfield style enclosure and Iron Age enclosures south of Hill House, Baker Street.Scheduled monument
- East Tilbury BatteryScheduled monument
- Coalhouse Fort battery and artillery defencesScheduled monument
- Ringwork and bailey known as Bishop Bonner’s Palace, OrsettScheduled monument
- Roman barrow 260m north east of South Ockendon HallScheduled monument
- Second World War anti-aircraft battery at Bowaters FarmScheduled monument
- World War II bombing decoy on Fobbing Marshes, 1.11km and 1.15km north west of OozedamScheduled monument
- Bulphan World War II bombing decoy, 850m and 890m south west of Doesgate FarmScheduled monument
- Dene holes in Hangman's WoodScheduled monument
- Belhus ParkRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- State Cinema
- Church of St Giles and All Saints
- Church of St Michael
- Orsett House
- Church of St Nicholas
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Church of St Michael
- Church of St Clement
- Church of St Mary
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Church of St Katherine
- St Clere's Hall
- Government Powder Magazine
- Church of St Mary
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Officers Barracks Tilbury Fort
- Baker Street Windmill
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Church of St Mary and All Saints
- Horndon on the Hill War Memorial
- Church of St James
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Corringham Hall
- Chadwell House
- Bell Inn
- Bretts Farmhouse
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Little Belhus
- High House
and 42 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Mucking excavationWikidata place
- Parkside StadiumWikidata place
- Shell HavenWikidata place
- Port of TilburyWikidata place
- London GatewayWikidata place
- Thurrock servicesWikidata place
- Chafford HundredWikidata place
- Linford WoodWikidata place
- Orsett Heath AcademyWikidata place
- Thurrock Town HallWikidata place
- Lower HorseWikidata place
- P&G London PlantWikidata place
- Chafford Gorges Nature ParkWikidata place
- Thurrock Thameside Nature ParkWikidata place
- Coryton RefineryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Tilbury Fort6.8 km south-east
- Gravesend Blockhouse7.7 km south
- Upminster Tithe Barn8.3 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.