LiDAR map of Dover
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Dover, a parish in Kent, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 138 recorded places here: 68 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 31 listed buildings, 21 places recorded in Wikidata, 8 scheduled monuments, 4 wrecks. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 7 m and 118 m above sea level; its highest point is about 137 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 churches or chapels and 2 Roman sites.
Dover 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 Dover, 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 Dover. 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 Dover. 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 68 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Dover 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 (68 features in the parish) and the 138 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
- 14.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 138
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 7–118 m above sea level; highest 137 m
- ONS code
- E04004932
Places with their own page
- /places/dover-castle/
- /places/archcliffe-fort/
- /places/maison-dieu-kent-q15243899/
- /places/dover-priory/
- /places/st-james-church-dover/
- /places/admiralty-pier-turret/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Archcliffe FortScheduled monument
- St James' ChurchScheduled monument
- St Martin's ChurchScheduled monument
- The Painted House, N of Market StreetScheduled monument
- Admiralty Pier Turret 636m south east of Lord Warden HouseScheduled monument
- Fortifications, Roman lighthouse and medieval chapel on Western HeightsScheduled monument
- Fairbairn-type crane, Wellington DockScheduled monument
- The Bath House, N of Market StreetScheduled monument
- Dover CastleAncient place (Pleiades)
- Portus DubrisAncient place (Pleiades)
- Pharos of Portus DubrisAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary Sub-castro
- Dover Castle
- St Edmunds Chapel
- The School Hall Dover College
- School Chapel Dover College
- Library Dover College
- Maison Dieu House
- Dover Town Hall
- Unitarian Church and Vestry
- Parish Church of St Andrew Buckland
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- The Gate House
- Old Charlton Cemetery Chapels
- Officers Barracks
- Great Farthingloe Farmhouse
- The Prince of Wales Pier
- Cruise Terminal 1
- World War II Air Raid Wardens' Post at Dover
- Eastern Arm, Dover Harbour
- Wellington Dock
- Former Dover Harbour Station
- Castle Inn
- Life-boat Lodge
- Connaught Pumping Station
- The Alma
- Former Buckland Flour Mill
- K6 Kiosk
- Former Customs Watch House
- Former Tram Shelter at Junction with Elms Vale
- Grand Shaft Stairs
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Dover Immigration Removal CentreWikidata place
- Caesar's invasions of BritainWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Dover Priory580 m south-east
- Maison Dieu610 m south-east
- St James' Church, Dover1.3 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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.