LiDAR map of Thanet
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Thanet, Kent, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 75 recorded places here: 62 listed buildings, 11 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Thanet lies between about 11 m and 37 m above sea level; its highest point is about 48 m.
Thanet 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 Thanet, 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 Thanet. 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 Thanet. 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 Thanet 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 75 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
- 12.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 75
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 11–37 m above sea level; highest 48 m
- ONS code
- E43000241
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Capital House, MargateAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Dent-de-Lion medieval gatehouseScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- The Scenic Railway at Dreamland
- Dreamland Cinema
- India House
- Tudor House
- The Grotto
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- Salmestone Grange
- Chapel of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital
- Theatre Royal
- Draper's Windmill
- John Sanger Memorial
- The Surf Boat Memorial Margate Cemetery
- Royal Sea Bathing Hospital Mortuary
- George and Dragon Public House
- Cinque Ports Public House
- War Memorial
- Clock Tower
- Westgate and Garlinge War Memorial
- Margate Railway Station
- Cecil Square Baptist Church
- Fomer Methodist Chapel
- Sunday School to Right of Baptist Church
- St Stephen's Methodist Church
- Church of All Saints
- Church of England Chapel
- Non Conformist Chapel
- Church of St Paul
- Former Congregational Church
- Former Holy Trinity Hall
- Royal Sea Bathing Hospital
and 32 more on the map.
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.