LiDAR map of Ash
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ash, a parish in Kent, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 57 recorded places here: 25 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 20 listed buildings, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 21 m above sea level; its highest point is about 33 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 industrial site, 1 moated site and 1 Roman site.
Ash 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 Ash, 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 Ash. 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 Ash. 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 25 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Ash 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 (25 features in the parish) and the 57 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
- Kent, England
- Area
- 28.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 57
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–21 m above sea level; highest 33 m
- ONS code
- E04004901
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Ash MillScheduled monument
- Medieval moated site, Chequer CourtScheduled monument
- A Saxon Shore fort, Roman port and associated remains at RichboroughScheduled monument
- RutupiaeAncient place (Pleiades)
- Roman amphitheater at RichboroughAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Richborough Castle
- Church of St Nicholas
- School Farm House
- Chilton House
- Wingham Barton Manor
- Paramour Grange
- Cairn
- Nat West Bank
- The Chequer Inn
- The Beauty Shop
- The Pharmacy
- Pair of Tomb Chests
- Chest Tomb
- Pair of Headstones
- Good Fortune Take Away
- Chest Tomb for Wood Family
- Chest Tomb for Tomlin Family
- Group of Chest Tomb and 5 Headstones
- Brewery Cottage Brewery House First and Last
- Monument
Other recorded places
- Ash Town railway stationWikidata place
- RichboroughWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Updown early medieval cemetery6.7 km south
- Sandown Castle9.8 km south-east
- Deal Castle11.3 km south-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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.