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LiDAR map of Alton Pancras
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Alton Pancras, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 25 recorded places here: 14 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 5 scheduled monuments, 4 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 132 m and 221 m above sea level; its highest point is about 256 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns, 1 church or chapel, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 field system.
Alton Pancras 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 Alton Pancras, 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 Alton Pancras. 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 Alton Pancras. 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 14 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Alton Pancras 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 (14 features in the parish) and the 25 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
- Dorset, England
- Area
- 9.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 25
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 132–221 m above sea level; highest 256 m
- ONS code
- E04003494
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Earthwork on Church HillScheduled monument
- Two square enclosures in Tenant's BottomScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 900m north west of Lower FarmScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Church HillScheduled monument
- Field system and settlement on Watcombe PlainScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of St Pancras
- The Manor House
- Churchyard Wall
- Table Tomb in St Pancras' Church Churchyard
Other recorded places
- Alton PancrasWikidata place
- Buckland NewtonWikidata place
- FIELD SYSTEM/LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM/LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY/FIELD SYSTEM/SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY/SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH/ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENT/SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cerne Abbas Giant3.3 km south-west
- Cerne Abbey3.3 km south-west
- Hillfort and later strip lynchets on Dungeon Hill4.5 km north
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.