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LiDAR map of Tavistock
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Tavistock, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 54 recorded places here: 41 listed buildings, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 82 m and 183 m above sea level; its highest point is about 226 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 monastic site and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Tavistock 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 Tavistock, 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 Tavistock. 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 Tavistock. 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 4 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Tavistock 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 (4 features in the parish) and the 54 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
- 13.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 54
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 82–183 m above sea level; highest 226 m
- ONS code
- E04003354
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Tavistock AbbeyScheduled monument
- Trendle earthwork NE of Kelly CollegeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Andrew
- Tavistock Methodist Church
- Whitchurch War Memorial
- Church of Our Lady and St Mary Magdalene
- Fitzford Gatehouse
- Range of Farm Buildings in Planned Farmyard
- Lloyds Bank
- Trustee Savings Bank and Country Casuals
- Kelly College
- Former Railway Station
- New Cemetery Chapel
- Society of Friends
- Bridge
- Sir Francis Drake Public House
- Part of Tavistock and District Co Operative
- Midland Bank
- (white Hart Inn) Public House
- Council Depot
- Barclays Bank
- Tavistock Town Council Offices
- Ford Street Charity
- County Primary School Annexe
- Freemasons Hall
- Church Park
- St Rumons Primary School
- Kingdon House, formerly the premises
- Cornish Arms Public House
- Pannier Market
- Statue of Sir Francis Drake
- New Cemetery Lodge, Entrance Gates and Mortuary
and 11 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- River BurnWikidata place
- Tavistock CollegeWikidata place
- Tavistock South railway stationWikidata place
- South Devon and Tavistock RailwayWikidata place
- Tavistock railway stationWikidata place
- Tiddy Brook MeadowsWikidata place
- WhitchurchWikidata place
- FIELD BOUNDARY\STRIP FIELDAerial survey feature
- MINE\SPOIL HEAPAerial survey feature
- SPOIL HEAP\TIN MINEAerial survey feature
- MINE SHAFT\SPOIL HEAPAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Tavistock Abbey580 m south-west
- Buckland Abbey8.0 km south
- Brisworthy stone circle12.2 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.