LiDAR map of Swale
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Swale, Kent, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 37 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 15 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments, 1 wreck. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Swale lies between about 3 m and 29 m above sea level; its highest point is about 51 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle and 1 church or chapel.
Swale 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 Swale, 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 Swale. 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 Swale. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Swale 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 and the 37 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
- 20.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 37
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 3–29 m above sea level; highest 51 m
- ONS code
- E43000268
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- 'Castle Rough' Medieval moated siteScheduled monument
- Murston Old Church, SittingbourneScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St Michael
- The Court House
- Chilton Manor
- Fulston Manor Farmhouse
- Cemetery Chapel
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Rose Inn
- The George Hotel
- Sittingbourne Adult Studies College
- The Three Hats Inn
- The Bull Hotel
- Wall to Cemetery
and 5 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Bayford CourtWikidata place
- Milton Creek Country ParkWikidata place
- Bowaters Paper RailwayWikidata place
- Leigh Academy MinsterWikidata place
- Central Park StadiumWikidata place
- Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light RailwayWikidata place
- Sittingbourne railway stationWikidata place
- Kemsley railway stationWikidata place
- Sheerness East railway stationWikidata place
- Halfway HousesWikidata place
- KemsleyWikidata place
- SwaleWikidata place
- MurstonWikidata place
- Sittingbourne Heritage MuseumWikidata place
- Dolphin Sailing Barge MuseumWikidata place
- Wreck showing any portion of hull or superstructureWreck
Nearest places with their own page
- Queenborough Castle6.0 km north
- Maison Dieu10.6 km south-east
- Fort Darnet11.4 km north-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.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.