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LiDAR map of Leiston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Leiston, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 76 recorded places here: 54 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 11 listed buildings, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m and 19 m above sea level; its highest point is about 23 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 monastic site.
Leiston 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 Leiston, 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 Leiston. 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 Leiston. 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 54 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Leiston 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 (54 features in the parish) and the 76 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
- 18.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 76
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 1–19 m above sea level; highest 23 m
- ONS code
- E04009426
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Leiston Abbey (first site) with later chapel and pill boxScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- St Mary's Abbey
- The Long Shop
- Church of St Margaret
- Leiston Hall
- Leiston House Farmhouse
- Leiston War Memorial, Church of St Margaret
- Leiston Quaker Meeting House
- The Cupola
- Water Tower
- White Horse Hotel
- Memorial
Other recorded places
- Sizewell nuclear power stationsWikidata place
- Summerhill SchoolWikidata place
- Sizewell C nuclear power stationWikidata place
- Minsmere RiverWikidata place
- Sizewell BeltsWikidata place
- Suffolk & Essex Coast & HeathsWikidata place
- Leiston railway stationWikidata place
- SizewellWikidata place
- LeistonWikidata place
- Sizewell Gap Engelandvaarder MemorialWikidata place
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- DITCH\ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\PIT\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- DIVER BATTERY\MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- CAUSEWAYAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITE\PRACTICE TRENCH\SLIT TRENCH\WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- DIVER BATTERYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Greyfriars, Dunwich6.6 km north
- Sibton Abbey10.8 km north-west
- Blythburgh Priory11.3 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.