LiDAR map of Lydd
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Lydd, a parish in Kent, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 68 recorded places here: 37 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 19 places recorded in Wikidata, 10 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 5 m above sea level; its highest point is about 11 m.
Lydd 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 Lydd, 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 Lydd. 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 Lydd. 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 37 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Lydd 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 (37 features in the parish) and the 68 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
- 48.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 68
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–5 m above sea level; highest 11 m
- ONS code
- E04005022
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Lade FortScheduled monument
- Three acoustic early warning devices 2360m east of Jack's CourtScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Dungeness Lighthouse
- Church of All Saints
- Dungeness Lighthousemen's Dwellings
- The Guild Hall
- The Old Lighthouse
- The George Hotel
- Former Star Public House
- Net Boiler
- The Dolphin Hotel
- Cannon
Other recorded places
- Dungeness Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- RSPB DungenessWikidata place
- Denge MarshWikidata place
- Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye BayWikidata place
- Lydd RangesWikidata place
- Britannia Points Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Dungeness railway stationWikidata place
- Greatstone-on-Sea Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Lydd-on-Sea Halt railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- St John's Priory, Including The Ruins Of The Priory4.6 km north-east
- Hope All Saints', remains of church5.2 km north
- Dymchurch Martello Tower10.2 km north-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.