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LiDAR map of Swainsthorpe
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Swainsthorpe, a parish in Norfolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 21 recorded places here: 17 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 listed buildings, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 12 m and 38 m above sea level; its highest point is about 44 m.
Swainsthorpe 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 Swainsthorpe, 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 Swainsthorpe. 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 Swainsthorpe. 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 17 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Swainsthorpe 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 (17 features in the parish) and the 21 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
- 3.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 21
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 12–38 m above sea level; highest 44 m
- ONS code
- E04006600
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Swainsthorpe railway stationWikidata place
- DITCH\ENCLOSURE\LINEAR FEATURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- ROAD\SQUARE BARROW\SQUARE ENCLOSURE\STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BUILDING PLATFORM\MOUND\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BUILDING PLATFORM\MOUND\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY DITCH\DRAINAGE DITCH\PIT\POND\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUAerial survey feature
- BUILDING\DRAINAGE DITCH\PIT\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DITCH\FIELD BOUNDARY\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DITCH\FIELD BOUNDARY\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROW\ROUND HOUSE (Aerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BOUNDARY BANK\BOUNDARY DITCH\FIELD BOUNDARY\ROAD\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY BANK\ROAD\SQUARE ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\SQUARE ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SQUARE ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DITCH\ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- DITCH\FIELD BOUNDARY\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- PIT\STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- Heritage SiteAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Bixley medieval settlement5.5 km north-east
- Norfolk city walls and towers7.5 km north
- Norwich Castle7.7 km north
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.