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LiDAR map of Buckfastleigh
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Buckfastleigh, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 37 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 15 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 37 m and 145 m above sea level; its highest point is about 188 m.
Buckfastleigh 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 Buckfastleigh, 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 Buckfastleigh. 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 Buckfastleigh. 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 Buckfastleigh 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 37 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
- 5.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 37
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 37–145 m above sea level; highest 188 m
- ONS code
- E04003199
Listed buildings
- Buckfast Abbey, Main Block
- Cabell Chest Tomb and Structure Over Tomb
- Church Ruins
- Parish Church of Holy Trinity
- Tithe Barn
- Higher Mill, East Block
- Railings to Town Mill Leat Fronting No 36 Bossell
- Methodist and United Reformed Church and Railings
- Flight of Steps to Church of Holy Trinity
- Churchyard Wall
- Higher Mill
- The Valiant Soldier
- The King's Arms Public House
- Launder on Piers Rear of Nos 6-9
- Turnpike Stone Set Into Wall at , South
- Austin's Bridge
- Church Bridge
and 2 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Joint Mitnor CaveWikidata place
- Reed's caveWikidata place
- Buckfastleigh railway stationWikidata place
- TREE RINGAerial survey feature
- FORMAL GARDENAerial survey feature
- GARDEN FEATUREAerial survey feature
- GARDEN FEATUREAerial survey feature
- TERRACED LAWNAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CHAPEL\PARISH CHURCHAerial survey feature
- CHURCHAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- WOOLLEN MILLAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- TEXTILE MILLAerial survey feature
- ABBEYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Hembury Castle2.8 km north-west
- Brent Hill5.6 km south-west
- Holne Chase Castle6.1 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.