LiDAR map of Braunton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Braunton, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 209 recorded places here: 175 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 22 listed buildings, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 wrecks, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 133 m above sea level; its highest point is about 237 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 field system.
Braunton 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 Braunton, 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 Braunton. 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 Braunton. 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 175 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Braunton 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 (175 features in the parish) and the 209 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
- 42.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 209
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–133 m above sea level; highest 237 m
- ONS code
- E04003075
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- The Castle, KnowleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Lynchets approximately 34m north-west of Saunton Sands HotelScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Ash Barton
- Buckland Manor
- Church of St Brannock
- Threshing Barn and Horse Engine House
- Saunton Court
- Church House
- Town Farm
- Broadgate
- Peel Tower at Os
- Fairlinch
- The Chapel of St Anne with Lych Gate, Saunton
- Eight Second World War concrete replica landing
- Second World War practice rocket wall
- Caen Primary School
- Velator Bridge
- Deans Bridge Over River Caen
- Chapel of St Michael
- Black Horse Inn
- Cider-mill House
- Great Sluice
- The Locks
- Cobble Stones
Other recorded places
- Museum of British SurfingWikidata place
- Crow Point LighthouseWikidata place
- Fullabrook Wind FarmWikidata place
- Braunton BurrowsWikidata place
- Lee WoodWikidata place
- Swanpool, DevonWikidata place
- KnowleWikidata place
- BoodeWikidata place
- PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING)Aerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- NON ANTIQUITYAerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING)Aerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING)Aerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING)Aerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Knowle Hill Castle1.5 km north
- Yelland Stone Rows3.9 km south
- Barnstaple Castle7.7 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.