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LiDAR map of Beccles
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Beccles, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 38 recorded places here: 28 listed buildings, 7 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m below sea level and 27 m above it; its highest point is about 34 m.
Beccles 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 Beccles, 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 Beccles. 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 Beccles. 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 7 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Beccles 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 (7 features in the parish) and the 38 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
- 8.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 38
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly −1–27 m above sea level; highest 34 m
- ONS code
- E04009485
Listed buildings
- Roos Hall
- Church of St Michael
- Leman House
- Detached Tower of Church of St Michael
- Waveney House
- St Peter's House
- Town Hall
- Minster Church of St Benet, Beccles
- Tower House
- Northgate House, 12, Northgate and Little End
- King's Head Hotel
- Premises Occupied by Wine Shop
- Beccles War Memorial
- Retaining Walls of Churchyard of Church of St
- St Denys
- Congregational Church
- Midland Bank
- Bear and Bells Inn
- The Former Fox and Hounds Inn
- National Provincial Bank
- White Horse
- Norwich Union Assurance Group
- Crown and Anchor Public House
- Premises Occupied by Lloyds Bank
- The Old National School
- Pinfold
and 2 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Beccles LidoWikidata place
- Beccles railway stationWikidata place
- BecclesWikidata place
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTERAerial survey feature
- CAUSEWAY\FLOOD DEFENCESAerial survey feature
- CAUSEWAYAerial survey feature
- PILLBOX\PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)Aerial survey feature
- CAUSEWAY\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- FLOOD DEFENCESAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Mettingham Castle7.3 km west
- St Olaves Priory9.5 km north
- Bungay Castle9.5 km 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.