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LiDAR map of Bincombe
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bincombe, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 91 recorded places here: 79 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 listed building, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 51 m and 148 m above sea level; its highest point is about 170 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 8 barrows or cairns and 1 long barrow or chambered tomb.
Bincombe 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 Bincombe, 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 Bincombe. 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 Bincombe. 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 79 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Bincombe 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 (79 features in the parish) and the 91 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
- 7.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 91
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 51–148 m above sea level; highest 170 m
- ONS code
- E04013369
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- ChalburyAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Long barrow 400yds (360m) NW of Hill BarnScheduled monument
- Group of round barrows on Bincombe HillScheduled monument
- Six round barrows on Bincombe DownScheduled monument
- Six barrows on Ridgeway HillScheduled monument
- Round barrows on RidgewayScheduled monument
- Group of barrows on West HillScheduled monument
- Two round barrows N of Bincombe BarnScheduled monument
- Round barrow E of Bayard's BarnScheduled monument
- Group of round barrows on North Bincombe Hill, S of Came WoodScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Ridgeway Hill Anti-Aircraft Operations RoomWikidata place
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill3.1 km south
- Medieval settlement of Winterborne Farringdon3.3 km north
- Maiden Castle4.0 km north-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Winterborne Monkton
- Winterborne St. Martin
- Weymouth
- Broadmayne
- Whitcombe
- Winterborne Came
- Winterborne Herringston
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.