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LiDAR map of Waltham Abbey
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Waltham Abbey, a parish in Essex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 79 recorded places here: 51 listed buildings, 19 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 canal structure. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 20 m and 94 m above sea level; its highest point is about 117 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 military sites and 2 monastic sites.
Waltham Abbey 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 Waltham Abbey, 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 Waltham Abbey. 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 Waltham Abbey. 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 Waltham Abbey 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 79 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
- 42.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 79
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 20–94 m above sea level; highest 117 m
- ONS code
- E04004036
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ambresbury BanksAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite including Anti-Tank Blocks on Lippitts HillScheduled monument
- World War II Bofors Anti-aircraft gun platform 340m south east of Cheshunt railway stationScheduled monument
- Waltham Abbey, including gatehouse and Stoney BridgeScheduled monument
- Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder FactoryScheduled monument
- Obelisk 325m NW of Cobbin PondScheduled monument
- The Temple, Temple Hill, Warlies ParkScheduled monument
- Ambresbury BanksAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Ministry of Defence Building L157
- Waltham Abbey Vicarage
- Church of the Holy Cross and St Lawrence Ruins
- Ministry of Defence Buildings A201 and A202
- Church of St Thomas
- Ministry of Defence Building L149
- Ministry of Defence Building L153
- Ministry of Defence Building L148
- Ministry of Defence Building Numbers L176
- The White House, Gilwell Park
- Waltham Abbey Garden Wall
- Midnight Chapel
- Ministry of Defence Number L168
- Abbey Gateway
- West Lodge, Gateway, East Lodge to London
- Holyfield Hall Farmhouse
- Essex House
- Luthers
- Church of the Holy Innocents
- Ministry of Defence Building L154
- Ministry of Defence Building L170a
- Ministry of Defence Building Number A200
- Ministry of Defence Building L165
- Ministry of Defence Building L133
- Ministry of Defence Building H7
- Ministry of Defence Building L167
- Ministry of Defence Building L136
- Ministry of Defence Building L145
- Ministry of Defence Building L141
- Ministry of Defence Building L135
and 21 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Fishers GreenWikidata place
- Gilwell OakWikidata place
- Cobbins BrookWikidata place
- Cornmill Stream and Old River LeaWikidata place
- Lee Valley ParkWikidata place
- River Lee Country ParkWikidata place
- River Lee DiversionWikidata place
- River Lee Flood Relief ChannelWikidata place
- Aqueduct LockWikidata place
- Cheshunt LockWikidata place
- Turpin's CaveWikidata place
- Waltham AbbeyWikidata place
- High BeachWikidata place
- Aimes GreenWikidata place
- Waltham AbbeyWikidata place
- SewardstoneburyWikidata place
- UpshireWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Loughton Camp2.7 km south-east
- Ambresbury Banks3.4 km east
- Elsyng Palace6.6 km 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.