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LiDAR map of Hollesley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Hollesley, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 73 recorded places here: 62 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m and 22 m above sea level; its highest point is about 26 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 settlement and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Hollesley 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 Hollesley, 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 Hollesley. 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 Hollesley. 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 62 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Hollesley 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 (62 features in the parish) and the 73 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
- 16.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 73
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 1–22 m above sea level; highest 26 m
- ONS code
- E04009417
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Settlement sites 330yds (300m) NW of Walnut Tree FarmScheduled monument
- Rectilinear enclosures 1km SW of Boyton Hall FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- HM Prison Hollesley BayWikidata place
- HM Prison Warren HillWikidata place
- Simpson's SaltingsWikidata place
- Sutton & Hollesley CommonsWikidata place
- HollesleyWikidata place
- The Suffolk Punch Trust Heritage MuseumWikidata place
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY BANK\EARTHWORK\FIELD BOUNDARY\FIELD SYSTEM\RABBIT WARRENAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BOUNDARY BANK\BOUNDARY MOUND\EARTHWORK\FIELD BOUNDARY\RABBIT WAAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)\PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Sutton Hoo8.1 km north-west
- Lady Alice Kenlis9.0 km north-west
- Campsey Priory10.0 km north-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.