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LiDAR map of Heacham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Heacham, a parish in Norfolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 59 recorded places here: 50 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 4 m and 40 m above sea level; its highest point is about 53 m.
Heacham 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 Heacham, 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 Heacham. 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 Heacham. 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 50 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Heacham 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 (50 features in the parish) and the 59 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
- Norfolk, England
- Area
- 13.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 59
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–40 m above sea level; highest 53 m
- ONS code
- E04006319
Listed buildings
- Churchyard Wall
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Church House
- Caley Mill
- Bridge Over Loo Water on Line of Former
Other recorded places
- Wild Ken HillWikidata place
- Heacham railway stationWikidata place
- HeachamWikidata place
- FIELD SYSTEM\IRREGULAR ENCLOSURE\ROAD\ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)\SETTLEMENT\SQUARE EAerial survey feature
- DITCH\PIT\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SQUARE ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DITCH\MOUND\SALTERNAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\MOUND\SALTERN\SALT WORKSAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\OYSTER BEDSAerial survey feature
- OYSTER BEDSAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE SYSTEM\LEAT\OYSTER BEDSAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE\FIELD SYSTEM\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\RING DITCH\ROUND HOUSEAerial survey feature
- DITCH\LINEAR FEATURE\RING DITCH\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENT\PILLBOX\SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT\TANK TRAPAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Castrum Branodunum12.1 km north-east
- Castle Rising Castle13.1 km south
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.