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LiDAR map of Christchurch
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Christchurch, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 106 recorded places here: 47 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 37 listed buildings, 16 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 9 m above sea level; its highest point is about 50 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns, 1 military site and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Christchurch 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 Christchurch, 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 Christchurch. 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 Christchurch. 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 47 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Christchurch 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 (47 features in the parish) and the 106 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
- 12.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 106
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–9 m above sea level; highest 50 m
- ONS code
- E04012814
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- St Catherine's Hill camp and round barrowsScheduled monument
- World War II pillbox and tank traps in former railway yard N of townScheduled monument
- Site of Town Walls in, and E of, Druitt GardensScheduled monument
- Oval earthwork on St Catherine's HillScheduled monument
- Round barrow on St Catherine's Hill campScheduled monument
- Round barrow E of Southcliffe Road, MudefordScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Christchurch Priory and Parish Church
- The Castle
- The Constable's House
- Redford Bridge
- Iford Bridge
- Red House Museum
- Christchurch Vicarage
- Place Mill
- Tyneham House
- The Moorings
- The Rising Sun Public House
- Guardroom, Christchurch Barracks
- United Reform Church
- Two chapels at Cemetery
- Former Cavalry Barracks, Christchurch Barracks
- The Ships Hotel
- Church of All Saints
- Priory Sports
- The Former Watch and Clock Fusee Chain Factory
- Bridge Furnishing Factory
- National Westminster Bank
- War Memorial
- Avonmouth Hotel
- The Salisbury Arms Public House
- Art Gallery and Picture Store at Red House Museum
- Bandstand in Quomps Recreation Ground
- Midland Bank
- The Town Hall
- Electricity Museum
- Place Mill Bridge
and 7 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Battle of MudefordWikidata place
- St Catherine's HillWikidata place
- Christchurch HospitalWikidata place
- The Grange School, ChristchurchWikidata place
- Twynham SchoolWikidata place
- Christchurch railway stationWikidata place
- Jumpers CommonWikidata place
- TucktoniaWikidata place
- PurewellWikidata place
- FairmileWikidata place
- PortfieldWikidata place
- SomerfordWikidata place
- BlackwaterWikidata place
- StanpitWikidata place
- ChristchurchWikidata place
- The Museum of ElectricityWikidata place
- BAILEY\BOUNDARY DITCH\CASTLEAerial survey feature
- MOTTE AND BAILEYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Dudsbury Camp7.8 km north-west
- Castle Hill11.3 km north-east
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.