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LiDAR map of Croydon
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Croydon, Greater London, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 286 recorded places here: 173 places recorded in Wikidata, 101 listed buildings, 7 scheduled monuments, 3 registered parks and gardens, 2 other recorded places. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Croydon lies between about 44 m and 154 m above sea level; its highest point is about 176 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns and 1 moated site.
Croydon 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 Croydon, 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 Croydon. 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 Croydon. 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 Croydon 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 286 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
- Greater London, England
- Area
- 86.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 286
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 44–154 m above sea level; highest 176 m
- ONS code
- E43000198
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Croham Hurst round barrowScheduled monument
- Regular aggregate field system, associated trackway and Anglo-Saxon barrow field on Farthing Downs, 490m east of Hooley FarmScheduled monument
- Newe (or Wide) Ditch, RiddlesdownScheduled monument
- Group of four World War II fighter pens at the former airfield of RAF KenleyScheduled monument
- Group of seven World War II fighter pens at the former airfield of RAF KenleyScheduled monument
- Norwood GroveRegistered park or garden
- Surrey Iron Railway embankment, approximately 130m south west of Lion Green Road, CoulsdonScheduled monument
- Elmers End moated site, South NorwoodScheduled monument
- Addington PalaceRegistered park or garden
- Promenade de Verdun Memorial LandscapeRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Old Palace Croydon: Chapel
- Old Palace Croydon: Great Hall
- Church of St Mary Addington
- Old Palace Croydon: east range of the south court
- Croydon War Memorial
- Addington Palace
- Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Hospital of the Holy Trinity
- Old Palace Croydon: east range of the north court
- Old Palace Croydon: west range of the south court
- Sanderstead War Memorial
- Addington War Memorial
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Baptist Church of West Croydon
- Shirley Windmill
- Promenade de Verdun War Memorial
- Selhurst War Memorial
- Whitehorse Manor School War Memorial
- Whitgift School War Memorial
- Church of St John
- Church of St Augustine
- Airport House
- Church of St James
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Wrencote
- Union Bank Chambers
- War Memorial at St John the Evangelist Church
- War Memorial at the Church of Holy Innocents
and 71 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Romano-British site, Wickham Court Farm4.8 km east
- Merton Priory9.0 km north-west
- Crofton Roman Villa11.5 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Reigate and Banstead
- Chaldon
- Caterham-on-the-Hill
- Whyteleafe
- Warlingham
- Chelsham and Farleigh
- Bromley
- Sutton
- Merton
- Lambeth
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.