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LiDAR map of Rackheath
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rackheath, a parish in Norfolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 30 recorded places here: 24 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 18 m and 33 m above sea level; its highest point is about 39 m.
Rackheath 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 Rackheath, 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 Rackheath. 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 Rackheath. 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 24 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Rackheath 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 (24 features in the parish) and the 30 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
- 7.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 30
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 18–33 m above sea level; highest 39 m
- ONS code
- E04006242
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- RAF RackheathWikidata place
- Rackheath Eco-townWikidata place
- RackheathWikidata place
- DITCH\DITCHED ENCLOSURE\ENCLOSURE\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\TRAerial survey feature
- DITCH\DITCHED ENCLOSURE\ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE\MORTUARY ENCLOSURE\OVAL BARROW\OVAL ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- GARDEN FEATURE\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RING DITCH\SQUARE BARROWAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT HANGAR\AMMUNITION DUMP\BOMB STORE\CONTROL TOWER\DISPERSAL\GUN EMPLACEMEAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROW\ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)Aerial survey feature
- DITCH\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY DITCH\ENCLOSURE\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENT\Aerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY DITCH\CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ACCOMMODATION HUT\ARMY CAMP\BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER\DOMESTIC SITE\HUT\NISSEN HUAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDING\WATER TOWERAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITE\PRACTICE TRENCH\SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- DITCH\FIELD\FIELD BOUNDARY\FIELD SYSTEM\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROW\ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDING\MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\DITCH\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DITCH\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cow Tower5.8 km south-west
- St. Leonard's Priory, Norwich6.0 km south-west
- Bishop Bridge6.0 km south-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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.