LiDAR map of Bow
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bow, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 28 recorded places here: 16 listed buildings, 9 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 110 m and 166 m above sea level; its highest point is about 190 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 barrows or cairns and 2 crosses.
Bow 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 Bow, 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 Bow. 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 Bow. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Bow 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 and the 28 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
- Devon, England
- Area
- 11.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 28
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 110–166 m above sea level; highest 190 m
- ONS code
- E04003006
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow 140m south east of Burston CrossScheduled monument
- A henge, two barrows, two ring ditches, two enclosures and part of a linear feature 420m north west of Lower HampsonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 220m south west of Hampson CottageScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 180m south west of Hampson CottageScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 250m north of Natson FarmScheduled monument
- Ring ditch 150m north of Natson FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 80m south west of Hampson CottageScheduled monument
- Wayside cross 100m north west of East LangfordScheduled monument
- Hillerton CrossScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Barakel and Riddaway's Stores
- Steer Headstone
- Congregational Church
- White Hart Hotel
- Kings Arms Inn
- The Post Office
- Cosland Headstone
- Parish Headstone
- Hencley Headstone
- May Headstone
- Pedlar Headstone
- Elston Headstone
- Bow Parish War Memorial Cross
- Raised Pavement
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Nymet Barton MarshWikidata place
- Bow railway station, DevonWikidata place
- BowWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Posbury9.1 km east
- Spinsters' Rock9.2 km south
- Prestonbury Castle10.1 km south
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.