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LiDAR map of Potter Heigham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Potter Heigham, a parish in Norfolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 31 recorded places here: 19 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about -0 m and 4 m above sea level; its highest point is about 8 m.
Potter Heigham 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 Potter Heigham, 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 Potter Heigham. 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 Potter Heigham. 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 19 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Potter Heigham 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 (19 features in the parish) and the 31 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
- 10.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 31
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly -0–4 m above sea level; highest 8 m
- ONS code
- E04006458
Listed buildings
- Church of St Nicholas
- Heigham Holmes Windpump
- High's Mill
- Sunways Mill
- Potter Heigham War Memorial
- Mill View
- The Holt and boathouse
- Wall to Churchyard of St Nicholas
Other recorded places
- Heigham HolmesWikidata place
- Potter Heigham Bridge Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Potter Heigham railway stationWikidata place
- Potter HeighamWikidata place
- CLAY PIT\PEAT CUTTING\PEAT EXTRACTION SITEAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\STOCK ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CLAY PIT\DRAINAGE DITCH\EXTRACTIVE PIT\LEAT\PEAT CUTTING\PEAT EXTRACTION SITEAerial survey feature
- DITCH\FARMSTEAD\FIELD BOUNDARY\PIT\POLYGONAL ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DECOY POND\PEAT CUTTINGAerial survey feature
- DITCH\FIELD BOUNDARY\LINEAR FEATURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DITCH\FIELD BOUNDARY\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- OVAL BARROW\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTION\PIT\ROADBLOCK\SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT\STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- PIT\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE MILL\RING DITCH\WINDMILLAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BOUNDARY BANK\BOUNDARY DITCH\CAUSEWAY\DITCH\DRAINAGE DITCHAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Hickling Priory5.3 km north
- St Benet's Abbey5.4 km south-west
- Caister Castle11.0 km south-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.