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LiDAR map of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 545 recorded places here: 215 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 165 listed buildings, 142 places recorded in Wikidata, 14 scheduled monuments, 5 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole lies between about 5 m and 55 m above sea level; its highest point is about 86 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 13 barrows or cairns and 1 Roman site.
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. 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 215 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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 (215 features in this area) and the 545 recorded places in this area, 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
- 109.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 545
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–55 m above sea level; highest 86 m
- ONS code
- E43000298
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hengistbury HeadAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Compton AcresRegistered park or garden
- Bowl barrow 390m east of Tuckton RoundaboutScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 405m north west of Barn Cottage, Hengistbury HeadScheduled monument
- Round barrow cemetery on Barrow Hill 150m south west of Brookvale FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Dunyeat's Hill 650m south west of Arrowsmith HouseScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows in Arrowsmith Coppice 200m south of Arrowsmith HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Knighton Heath Golf Course 320m south of Eastlands FarmScheduled monument
- Fern Barrow: a bowl barrow on Talbot HeathScheduled monument
- Round barrow cemetery south and west of Rose Lawn Coppice, 600m south west of Higher Merley FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation, 340m north of Arrowsmith HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow cemetery and four other bowl barrows on Canford HeathScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 650m south of southern corner of New CovertScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 730m south east of AlhambraScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 300m east of AlhambraScheduled monument
- Two sections of Roman road on Barrow Hill and Corfe HillsScheduled monument
- Wimborne Road Cemetery, BournemouthRegistered park or garden
- Poole CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Upper, Central and Lower Pleasure GardensRegistered park or garden
- Poole ParkRegistered park or garden
- Hengistbury HeadAncient place (Pleiades)
- Lake Farm Roman fortAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Canford School
- Parish Church of Canford Magna
- Merley House
- Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation
- Russell-Cotes Museum
- Upton House
- The Waterfront Museum, Local History Centre
- John of Gaunt's Kitchen, Canford School
- The Guildhall
- St Ann's Hospital
- Kinges Halle
- Custom House
- Church of St Stephen
- Church of St Peter
- Church of St Clement
- Old Town House
- St Swithun's Church Hall
- Langtry Manor Hotel
- Former Town Hall
- Church of St Ambrose
- Church of St Alban
- Nineveh Court, Attached Carriage Arch and Screen
- Sir Peter Thompson House
- Church of St Peter
- Parish Church of St Aldhelm
- Lady Wimborne's Bridge
- Church of St Osmund
- Bournemouth East Cemetery Chapels
- Bournemouth War Memorial with associated steps
- Canford Village Hall
and 135 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Bournemouth Air FestivalWikidata place
- Moordown air disasterWikidata place
- Warren HillWikidata place
- Bournemouth Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- Turbary ParkWikidata place
- Poole Power StationWikidata place
- Kings Park, BoscombeWikidata place
- Port of PooleWikidata place
- Corfe Barrows Nature ParkWikidata place
- Poole Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- Meyrick ParkWikidata place
- Our Lady Queen of Peace and Blessed Margaret PoleWikidata place
- St Saviour's ChurchWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Dudsbury Camp4.6 km north
- Rempstone Stone Circle13.4 km south-west
- Badbury Rings13.9 km north-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Lytchett Minster and Upton
- Corfe Mullen
- Wimborne Minster
- Colehill
- Pamphill
- Throop and Holdenhurst
- Hurn
- West Parley
- Ferndown Town
- Christchurch
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.