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LiDAR map of Folkestone
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Folkestone, a parish in Kent, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 99 recorded places here: 39 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 37 listed buildings, 17 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 28 m and 110 m above sea level; its highest point is about 170 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns and 1 Roman site.
Folkestone 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 Folkestone, 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 Folkestone. 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 Folkestone. 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 39 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Folkestone 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 (39 features in the parish) and the 99 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
- 14.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 99
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 28–110 m above sea level; highest 170 m
- ONS code
- E04005040
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- An unenclosed Iron Age urnfield and Roman villa, 60m ESE of No.64 Wear Bay RoadScheduled monument
- Martello tower no 4, Cliff Road, FolkestoneScheduled monument
- Medieval ringwork with bailey and approach causeway, incorporating a bowl barrow on Castle HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow and pillbox on Cherry Garden HillScheduled monument
- Two Martello towers, East CliffScheduled monument
- FolkestoneAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Folkestone War Memorial
- Church of St Martin
- The Parish Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe
- The Leas Lift
- Leas Cliff Hall
- Folkestone Memorial Cairn
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Former Baptist Church
- The Battery
- Martello Tower No 2
- Pulhamite Caves
- War Memorial to the Machine Gun Corps
- Ruins of Christ Church
- Church of St Peter
- Church of All Souls
- United Reformed Church
- Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Help
- Church of St Saviour
- Former Martello Public House
- St Andrews Hotel and Chapel
- Library and Museum
- Grace Chapel
- Masonic Hall
- The Guildhall
- The New Metropole
- The Grand Hotel
- The Life Boat Inn
- Statue in the Grounds of the Battery
- Former Old Harvey Grammar School
- Former Gas Showroom
and 7 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Folkestone Castle1.1 km north
- Sandgate Castle1.9 km south-west
- Shorncliffe Redoubt2.6 km south-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.
- © 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.