LiDAR map of Gidleigh
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Gidleigh, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 35 recorded places here: 20 scheduled monuments, 12 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 274 m and 439 m above sea level; its highest point is about 531 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 barrows or cairns, 5 field systems, 4 settlements and 3 henges and standing stones.
Gidleigh 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 Gidleigh, 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 Gidleigh. 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 Gidleigh. 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 Gidleigh 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 35 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
- 14.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 35
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 274–439 m above sea level; highest 531 m
- ONS code
- E04003321
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Scorhill stone circle, three cairns and a length of reaveScheduled monument
- A cairn cemetery on Long RidgeScheduled monument
- A stone hut circle settlement and irregular aggregate field system at the northern tip of Long RidgeScheduled monument
- The North Teign coaxial field system (western part) and associated later remains at Shovel Down, Stonetor Hill and Long RidgeScheduled monument
- Cairn cemetery 880m south west of Wallabrook BridgeScheduled monument
- An unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 1.1km south east of Gartaven Ford, south west of RippatorScheduled monument
- An unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 400m north west of Scorhill stone circleScheduled monument
- Two round cairns 400m north west of Scorhill FarmScheduled monument
- Stone circle 400m south west of Buttern HillScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle 210m east of Scorhill stone circleScheduled monument
- Two stone hut circles 850m WSW of the confluence of Gallaven Brook and Walla Brook, 1045m north east of the ThirlstoneScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle settlement, cairnfield and field system 580m north east of Gartaven FordScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle settlement and post-medieval shelter 990m north east of Hawthorn Clitter, 1030m east of The ThirlstoneScheduled monument
- Two stone hut circle settlements with an irregular aggregate field system east of Rival Tor, 900m south west of Buttern HillScheduled monument
- Part of a coaxial field system, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Buttern HillScheduled monument
- Chambered cairn 830m south of ButternScheduled monument
- Chambered cairn 430m south of ButternScheduled monument
- Two stone hut circles and field system, 590m south of Buttern, forming part of a coaxial field system on Buttern HillScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle and field system 580m north west of North Creaber, forming part of a coaxial field system on Buttern HillScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle 380m north west of North CreaberScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Gidleigh Castle
- Gidleigh Mill
- North Forder Farmhouse
- West Chapple Farmhouse
- Ensworthy
- Disused Chapel
- Clapper Bridge
- Wallabrook Bridge
- Teign-e-ver Clapper Bridge
- Highbury Bridge
- Forder Bridge
- Footbridge
Other recorded places
- Shovel DownWikidata place
- Gidleigh ParkWikidata place
- GidleighWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Gidleigh Castle2.0 km north-east
- Spinsters' Rock5.8 km north-east
- Grimspound8.4 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.