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LiDAR map of Wiston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wiston, a parish in West Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 8 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 22 m and 137 m above sea level; its highest point is about 241 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 hillforts and 1 cross.
Wiston 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 Wiston, 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 Wiston. 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 Wiston. 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 8 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Wiston 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 (8 features in the parish) and the 24 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
- 13.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 22–137 m above sea level; highest 241 m
- ONS code
- E04009976
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Group of three saucer barrows and a pair of hlaews south east of Chanctonbury Ring hillfortScheduled monument
- Pair of hlaews 150m south east of Chanctonbury Ring hillfortScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 380m south east of Chanctonbury Ring hillfortScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 440m south east of Chanctonbury Ring hillfortScheduled monument
- Cross dyke and platform barrow 460m south east of Chanctonbury Ring hillfortScheduled monument
- Cross dyke in Court Plantation, 600m south west of Wiston BarnScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Wiston House
- Buncton Chapel of All Saints
- The Parish Church of St Mary
- The Stables to the South
- Post Office Wiston Stores
- The Old School
- Malthouse
Other recorded places
- South Downs National ParkWikidata place
- Chanctonbury HillWikidata place
- WistonWikidata place
- MILL PONDAerial survey feature
- BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- WELLAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- MOATAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Bramber Castle5.3 km south-east
- Knepp Castle6.4 km north
- Muntham Court Romano-British site6.5 km south-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.