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LiDAR map of Sompting
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Sompting, a parish in West Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 23 recorded places here: 15 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 listed building. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 7 m and 110 m above sea level; its highest point is about 149 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 crosses and 1 Roman site.
Sompting 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 Sompting, 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 Sompting. 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 Sompting. 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 15 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Sompting 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 (15 features in the parish) and the 23 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
- West Sussex, England
- Area
- 10.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 23
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 7–110 m above sea level; highest 149 m
- ONS code
- E04009848
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Regular aggregate field system with prehistoric and Romano-British farmsteads and a Bronze Age bowl barrow on Park BrowScheduled monument
- Cross dyke on Steep Down, 600m north east of Titch Hill FarmScheduled monument
- Cross dyke on Steep Down, 700m north east of Beggars BushScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Sompting Abbotts Preparatory SchoolWikidata place
- Boundstone Community CollegeWikidata place
- Sompting & North LancingWikidata place
- SomptingWikidata place
- DEWPOND\ENCLOSURE\PONDAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENT\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLYAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY BANK\LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- DITCH\DRAIN\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BOUNDARY\ROADAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKE\DITCH\LINEAR EARTHWORK\LYNCHET\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Bramber Castle5.1 km north-east
- Flint mine and a bowl barrow on Church Hill5.3 km north-west
- Muntham Court Romano-British site6.1 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.