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LiDAR map of Aldringham cum Thorpe
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Aldringham cum Thorpe, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 55 recorded places here: 38 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 16 m above sea level; its highest point is about 22 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns.
Aldringham cum Thorpe 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 Aldringham cum Thorpe, 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 Aldringham cum Thorpe. 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 Aldringham cum Thorpe. 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 38 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
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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 (38 features in the parish) and the 55 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
- Suffolk, England
- Area
- 7.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 55
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–16 m above sea level; highest 22 m
- ONS code
- E04009367
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Two bowl barrows in Square PlantationScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows on Aldringham GreenScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Aldringham Common, 300m east of Stone HouseScheduled monument
- Thorpeness MeareRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Thorpeness Mill
- Church of St Andrew
- The Parrot and Punchbowl Public House
- Church of St Mary
- The Ogilvie Almshouses
- Aldringham War Memorial
- Westbar
Other recorded places
- Thorpeness Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- Sizewell HallWikidata place
- Thorpeness railway stationWikidata place
- AldringhamWikidata place
- ThorpenessWikidata place
- St Andrews ChurchyardWikidata place
- MOUND\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTION\BOMB CRATER\MILITARY INSTALLATION\MILITARY TRAINING SITE\PRAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- MOUND\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ACCOMMODATION HUT\AIR RAID SHELTER\DIVER BATTERY\NISSEN HUT\ROADBLOCK\STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTER\SPORTS GROUNDAerial survey feature
- ACCOMMODATION HUT\AIR RAID SHELTER\STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\GUN EMPLACEMENT\PRACTICE TRENCH\SLIT TRENCH\SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEAerial survey feature
- ANTENNA ARRAY\ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY\BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTION\PILLBOX\PILLBOX (VARAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Greyfriars, Dunwich10.0 km north
- Sibton Abbey13.2 km north-west
- Blythburgh Priory14.9 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.