LiDAR map of Brayford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Brayford, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 44 recorded places here: 27 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 5 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 170 m and 382 m above sea level; its highest point is about 476 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns and 1 hillfort.
Brayford 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 Brayford, 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 Brayford. 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 Brayford. 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 27 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Brayford 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 (27 features in the parish) and the 44 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
- 26.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 44
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 170–382 m above sea level; highest 476 m
- ONS code
- E04003076
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Shoulsbarrow Castle (Shaulsbury)Scheduled monument
- Camp on Mockham DownScheduled monument
- Four round barrows on Muxworthy RidgeScheduled monument
- Round barrow 100yds (90m) NE of Five Cross WayScheduled monument
- Round barrow 200ft (60m) NW of Setta Barrow, Bray CommonScheduled monument
- Setta Barrow and three round barrows to the southScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Brayford Baptist Chapel
- Group of 5 Gravestones
- Chest Tomb to Cridge Family
- Group of 7 Headstones
Other recorded places
- Mockham DownWikidata place
- High BrayWikidata place
- BrayfordWikidata place
- BrayfordhillWikidata place
- CharlesWikidata place
- MULTIVALLATE HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENT\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- PACKHORSE ROAD\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- PACKHORSE ROAD\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- PACKHORSE ROAD\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Smythapark hillfort6.7 km north-west
- Cow Castle9.8 km east
- Roborough Castle10.8 km north
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.