LiDAR map of Butley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Butley, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 32 recorded places here: 24 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about -0 m and 19 m above sea level; its highest point is about 25 m.
Butley 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 Butley, 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 Butley. 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 Butley. 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 Butley 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 32 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
- 32
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly -0–19 m above sea level; highest 25 m
- ONS code
- E04009383
Listed buildings
- Butley Abbey and Priory Gate House
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Butley Abbey and Priory
- Abbey Gate House Wall
- Butley Abbey and Priory Rere-dorter
- Ruins of Abbey Church
Other recorded places
- Neutral Farm Pit, ButleyWikidata place
- ButleyWikidata place
- BUILDING\CAUSEWAY\FLOOD DEFENCESAerial survey feature
- CAUSEWAYAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM\RING DITCH\ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM\NON ANTIQUITYAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY BANK\BOUNDARY DITCH\BUILDING PLATFORM\DRAINAGE DITCH\ENCLOSURE\MOUND\PIAerial survey feature
- AGGREGATE FIELD SYSTEM\SPECTACLE ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\FIELD SYSTEM\GRUBENHAUS\PIT\RING DITCH\RAerial survey feature
- OYSTER BEDSAerial survey feature
- OYSTER BEDSAerial survey feature
- OYSTER BEDSAerial survey feature
- FLOOD DEFENCES\SEA DEFENCESAerial survey feature
- PLANTATION BANK\WOOD BANKAerial survey feature
- EXTRACTIVE PIT\OYSTER BEDSAerial survey feature
- COAXIAL FIELD SYSTEM\FIELD SYSTEM\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\NON ANTIQUITY\RING DITCH\ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- DRAIN\FIELD BOUNDARY\ROADAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\FIELD SYSTEM\OVAL ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\TRACKAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Campsey Priory7.3 km north-west
- Sutton Hoo9.1 km west
- Lady Alice Kenlis9.9 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.