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LiDAR map of North Tawton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of North Tawton, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 88 recorded places here: 61 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 15 listed buildings, 8 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 121 m and 179 m above sea level; its highest point is about 206 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns, 1 cross, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 motte or ringwork.
North Tawton 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 North Tawton, 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 North Tawton. 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 North Tawton. 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 61 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See North Tawton 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 (61 features in the parish) and the 88 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
- 24.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 88
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 121–179 m above sea level; highest 206 m
- ONS code
- E04003341
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Week Barn CrossScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 500m north east of BroadnymettScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 200m north east of Newland CrossScheduled monument
- Long mortuary enclosure and ring ditch 250m south west of Week Meadow FarmScheduled monument
- Two long mortuary enclosures 570m east and 590m ENE of Sandford BartonScheduled monument
- Motte 160m east of St Peter's ChurchScheduled monument
- Roman forts, marching camps and associated monumentsScheduled monument
- Medieval settlement of BeereScheduled monument
- ‘Nemetotacio’Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Peter
- North Tawton War Memorial
- Former Church of St Martin
- Well Immediately
- Greenslade House
- Cottles Barton
- Upcott Farmhouse
- Westacott Barton
- Railway Station
- Newland Mill
- Former Primary School
- Westernmost Warehouse at Wool Grading Centre
- Copper Key Inn
- Newland Mill House
- Taw Bridge
Other recorded places
- South West PeninsulaWikidata place
- Den Brook Wind FarmWikidata place
- North TawtonWikidata place
- FORTAerial survey feature
- MARCHING CAMPAerial survey feature
- POOLAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- HOLLOWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Spinsters' Rock11.1 km south
- Okehampton Castle11.6 km south-west
- Gidleigh Castle13.1 km south
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.