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LiDAR map of Canterbury
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Canterbury, Kent, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 254 recorded places here: 180 listed buildings, 53 places recorded in Wikidata, 12 scheduled monuments, 3 Roman inscriptions, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Canterbury lies between about 2 m and 49 m above sea level; its highest point is about 72 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 Roman sites, 2 monastic sites and 1 industrial site.
Canterbury 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 Canterbury, 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 Canterbury. 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 Canterbury. 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 1 aerial survey feature in the area. More about this map
See Canterbury 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 (1 feature in this area) and the 254 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
- Kent, England
- Area
- 63.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 254
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–49 m above sea level; highest 72 m
- ONS code
- E43000269
Places with their own page
- /places/st-augustine-s-monastic-conduit-house-king-s-park/
- /places/canterbury-castle/
- /places/st-augustine-s-abbey/
- /places/blackfriars-kent/
- /places/canterbury-city-walls/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- The GuildhallScheduled monument
- Dane John Mound and Roman and medieval remains in Dane John GardenScheduled monument
- Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's AbbeyWorld Heritage Site
- St Augustine's monastic conduit house, King's ParkScheduled monument
- St Augustine's AbbeyScheduled monument
- Roman remains on Marlowe car parkScheduled monument
- SeasalterAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Reculver Saxon Shore fort, Anglo-Saxon monastery and associated remainsScheduled monument
- City wall and bastion in Westgate GardensScheduled monument
- Conduit House, NE of Victoria married quarters, Military RoadScheduled monument
- Abbot's Mill and sluice at Blackfriars StreetScheduled monument
- Medieval saltern 950m north east of Monkshill Farm, one of a group of six on Seasalter LevelScheduled monument
- Medieval saltern 1.05km north east of Monkshill Farm, one of a group of six on Seasalter LevelScheduled monument
- Medieval saltern 1.15km north east of Monkshill Farm, one of a group of six on Seasalter LevelScheduled monument
- *DurovernumAncient place (Pleiades)
- RegulbiumAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Canterbury Castle
- Blackfriars Monastery Guest House
- Prior's Chapel
- Greyfriars Monastery
- Church of St Peter
- Christchurch Cathedral
- Remains of Roman Town House
- The Former Blackfriars Monastery
- The Archdeacon of Canterbury's House
- The King's School Shop
- Church of St Martin
- Westgate House
- Church of St Margaret
- Wincheap House
- Dark Entry
- The West Gate
- Church of St Mildred
- Cloister to Christchurch Cathedral
- Chapter House to Christchurch Cathedral
- Library to Christchurch Cathedral
- The Cemetery Gateway at St Augustine's College
- The Church of St Dunstan's Without the West Gate
- Church of St Stephen
- Eastbridge Hospital
- Lychgate to St Martin's Church
- Zoar Chapel
- Cathedral Choir School
- Wolfson Library
- The Archbishop's Palace or the Old Palace
- Remains of Cellarer's Hall in Archbishop's Palace
and 150 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- The Great Fire of Whitstable, 1869Wikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Blackfriars7.8 km south
- St Augustine's monastic conduit house, King's Park7.9 km south
- St Augustine's Abbey8.0 km south
Neighbouring parishes
- Lower Hardres and Nackington
- Bridge
- Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne
- Thanington
- Harbledown and Rough Common
- Littlebourne
- Fordwich
- Hackington
- Dunkirk
- Hernhill
- Graveney with Goodnestone
- Blean
- Sturry
- Chestfield
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.