LiDAR map of Wembury
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wembury, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 109 recorded places here: 92 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 32 m and 106 m above sea level; its highest point is about 117 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 military sites.
Wembury 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 Wembury, 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 Wembury. 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 Wembury. 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 92 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Wembury 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 (92 features in the parish) and the 109 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
- 15.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 109
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 32–106 m above sea level; highest 117 m
- ONS code
- E04003185
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Fort BovisandScheduled monument
- Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structuresScheduled monument
- World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 100m west of Princes CottagesScheduled monument
- Langdon Court HotelRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Langdon Court Hotel
- Church of St Werburgh
- Pair of Garden Houses
- Wembury House
- Hele Almshouses
- Defence Electric Light Emplacement
Other recorded places
- HMS CambridgeWikidata place
- Frobisher BatteryWikidata place
- Brownhill BatteryWikidata place
- Plymouth Sound, Shores and CliffsWikidata place
- Wembury Marine CentreWikidata place
- Down ThomasWikidata place
- BovisandWikidata place
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- NISSEN HUTAerial survey feature
- NAVAL GUNNERY RANGEAerial survey feature
- SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Fort Bovisand3.1 km west
- Fort Stamford3.8 km north-west
- Plymouth Castle5.4 km north-west
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.