LiDAR map of Hythe
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Hythe, a parish in Kent, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 99 recorded places here: 68 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 11 listed buildings, 11 scheduled monuments, 9 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 67 m above sea level; its highest point is about 97 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 bridges and 2 churches or chapels.
Hythe 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 Hythe, 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 Hythe. 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 Hythe. 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 Hythe 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 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
- 12.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 99
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–67 m above sea level; highest 97 m
- ONS code
- E04005020
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Dymchurch RedoubtScheduled monument
- St Mary's Church, West HytheScheduled monument
- Martello tower no 14 at Hythe RangesScheduled monument
- Martello tower no 15 at Hythe RangesScheduled monument
- Royal Military Canal, Seabrook Lodge Bridge to Seabrook SluiceScheduled monument
- Royal Military Canal, Scanlon's Bridge to Town BridgeScheduled monument
- Royal Military Canal, Twiss Road Bridge to Seabrook Lodge BridgeScheduled monument
- Royal Military Canal, West Hythe Bridge to Scanlon's BridgeScheduled monument
- Royal Military Canal, Town Bridge to Twiss Road BridgeScheduled monument
- Royal Military Canal, West Hythe Dam to West Hythe BridgeScheduled monument
- Early medieval flood defence at Botolph's Bridge, West HytheScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Centuries, 1 and 2
- The Town Hall
- The Parish Church of St Leonard
- Hythe War Memorial
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Mill House
- Red Lion Public House
- National Westminster Bank
- Hythe Town Reservoir
- Former Animal Pound
and 1 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Saltwood Castle1.7 km north-east
- Dymchurch Redoubt3.3 km south-west
- Castra Lemanis3.6 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.