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LiDAR map of Blythburgh
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Blythburgh, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 20 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m and 23 m above sea level; its highest point is about 34 m.
Blythburgh 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 Blythburgh, 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 Blythburgh. 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 Blythburgh. 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 20 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Blythburgh 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 (20 features in the parish) and the 26 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
- 15.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 1–23 m above sea level; highest 34 m
- ONS code
- E04009372
Places with their own page
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Southwold RailwayWikidata place
- BlythburghWikidata place
- SQUARE ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\FIELD SYSTEM\SETTLEMENT\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- MOUND\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- DITCH\FIELD BOUNDARY\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENT\PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- MOUND\POST HOLE\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROW\WINDMILL MOUNDAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENT\PRACTICE TRENCH\SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENT\PRACTICE TRENCH\SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- MOUND\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\FIELD BOUNDARY\SHEEP FOLD\STOCK ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENT\PRACTICE TRENCH\SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTION\GUN EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCH\TRAINING AREAAerial survey feature
- SITEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Blythburgh Priory2.4 km north
- Greyfriars, Dunwich4.1 km south-east
- Sibton Abbey8.7 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.