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LiDAR map of Santon Downham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Santon Downham, a parish in Suffolk, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 82 recorded places here: 72 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 scheduled monuments, 2 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 9 m and 46 m above sea level; its highest point is about 54 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns.
Santon Downham 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 Santon Downham, 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 Santon Downham. 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 Santon Downham. 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 72 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Santon Downham 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 (72 features in the parish) and the 82 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
- 15.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 82
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 9–46 m above sea level; highest 54 m
- ONS code
- E04009156
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow 380m south west of Santon HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 580m north east of The Lodge, BrandonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 100m south east of Woodcock CottageScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 230m south west of Little Lodge FarmScheduled monument
- Downham High WarrenScheduled monument
- Santon Downham WarrenScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Santon Downham TramwayWikidata place
- Santon DownhamWikidata place
- ACCOMMODATION HUT\HUTAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY BANK\PARISH BOUNDARY\RABBIT WARRENAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTER\CONSTRUCTION CAMP\MILITARY CAMP\WORKHOUSEAerial survey feature
- FLINT MINE\Flint Working Site\INDUSTRIAL SITEAerial survey feature
- FLINT MINE\INDUSTRIAL SITE\MARL PIT\QUARRY\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- FLINT MINE\INDUSTRIAL SITE\QUARRYAerial survey feature
- MOUND\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- MOUND\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\PARK\PLANTATION BANKAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BOUNDARY BANK\PLANTATION BANKAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BUILDING\LANDSCAPE GARDEN FEATURE\PLANTATION BANKAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE\NATURAL FEATURE\PONDAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BOUNDARY BANK\RABBIT WARRENAerial survey feature
- PIT\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- PIT\SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Grime's Graves4.4 km north
- Thetford Priory4.7 km south-east
- Holy Sepulchre Priory, Thetford4.9 km south-east
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.