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LiDAR map of Charminster
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Charminster, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 51 recorded places here: 29 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 12 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 70 m and 148 m above sea level; its highest point is about 198 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns and 1 medieval settlement.
Charminster 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 Charminster, 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 Charminster. 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 Charminster. 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 29 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Charminster 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 (29 features in the parish) and the 51 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
- 17.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 51
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 70–148 m above sea level; highest 198 m
- ONS code
- E04003519
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round barrow SW of Wolfeton ClumpScheduled monument
- Round barrow N of Forston BarnScheduled monument
- Round barrow E of Forston FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Wood Hill 310m north east of CowdenScheduled monument
- Barrow S of Wolfeton ClumpScheduled monument
- Medieval settlement 850m north of St Mary's ChurchScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Wolfeton House
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Charminster War Memorial
- Forston House
- The Riding House
- Gray and Rogerson Monuments
- Road Bridge Over River Cerne
- Former Chapel Block
- Wolfeton House Lodge
- Bridge Over River Cerne at Forston
- Toll House
- Road bridge to south
Other recorded places
- Dorset AONBWikidata place
- Herrison HospitalWikidata place
- Charlton DownWikidata place
- CharminsterWikidata place
- FIELD SYSTEM\MOAT\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- FARMSTEADAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- MOATAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Poundbury Hill3.6 km south
- Dorchester Roman walls4.3 km south
- Maumbury Rings4.9 km south
Neighbouring parishes
- Bradford Peverell
- Stratton
- Godmanstone
- Nether Cerne
- Dorchester
- Stinsford
- Athelhampton and Puddletown
- Piddlehinton
- Piddletrenthide
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.