LiDAR map of Lydford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Lydford, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 21 recorded places here: 14 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 201 m and 502 m above sea level; its highest point is about 562 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 settlements, 3 barrows or cairns, 1 motte or ringwork and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Lydford 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 Lydford, 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 Lydford. 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 Lydford. 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 Lydford 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 21 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
- 13.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 21
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 201–502 m above sea level; highest 562 m
- ONS code
- E04003333
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Longridge Woods, LydfordAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Ringwork, castle, town banks, site of Saxon town and defencesScheduled monument
- Gallows HillScheduled monument
- Round cairn 340m north of Hare TorScheduled monument
- Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 540m east of Doe TorScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle 530m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlementScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle 610m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlementScheduled monument
- Ring cairn and rectangular building earthwork 940m west of Widgery CrossScheduled monument
- Round cairn 190m east of Doe Tor summitScheduled monument
- Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 260m north of Deadlake FootScheduled monument
- Three stone hut circles situated west of the enclosed stone hut circle settlement 260m north of Deadlake FootScheduled monument
- Enclosure in Parsonage WoodScheduled monument
- Alluvial tin streamwork in Lydford WoodsScheduled monument
- Foxhole Mine and other tinworks south east of Arms TorScheduled monument
- Milestone N of Lower BeardonScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- River LydWikidata place
- Brat TorWikidata place
- West DevonWikidata place
- LydfordWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Motte with two baileys4.0 km north-west
- Meldon Viaduct8.3 km north-east
- Okehampton Castle10.8 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Dartmoor Forest
- Peter Tavy
- Mary Tavy
- Brentor
- Lewtrenchard
- Lands common to Bridestowe and Sourton CP's
- Bridestowe
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.