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LiDAR map of Corfe Castle
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Corfe Castle, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 179 recorded places here: 84 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 62 listed buildings, 20 scheduled monuments, 11 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 133 m above sea level; its highest point is about 205 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 14 barrows or cairns, 2 Roman sites, 1 henge or standing stone and 1 long barrow or chambered tomb.
Corfe Castle 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 Corfe Castle, 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 Corfe Castle. 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 Corfe Castle. 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 84 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Corfe Castle 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 (84 features in the parish) and the 179 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
- 36.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 179
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–133 m above sea level; highest 205 m
- ONS code
- E04012323
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Rempstone Stone CircleScheduled monument
- EncombeRegistered park or garden
- Bowl barrow on Swyre HeadScheduled monument
- Group of three bowl barrows on West Hill, 650m NNE of The Glebe HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 470m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe CommonScheduled monument
- Group of four bowl barrows 250m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe CommonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 650m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe CommonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 850m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe CommonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 900m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe CommonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 930m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe CommonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 1120m WNW of Peaked Close House: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Corfe CommonScheduled monument
- Round barrow cemetery and earlier long barrow on Ailwood DownScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 500m north east of Afflington FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 760m south west of Afflington BarnScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 200m south east of East OrchardScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Brenscombe Heath, 470m west of Burnbake CottageScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 350m and 410m south of Afflington BarnScheduled monument
- Roman site N of Brenscombe FarmScheduled monument
- Kingston Down Romano-British farmScheduled monument
- The Rings: a ringwork and bailey and a Civil War battery 400m south west of Corfe CastleScheduled monument
- Medieval settlement at AfflingtonScheduled monument
- BucknowleAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Corfe Castle
- The Town House
- The Old Town Hall
- Parish Church of Saint James
- Encombe House
- Corfe Castle Post Office
- Scoles Farm House
- Corfe Castle Railway Station
- Morton's House
- Furzeman's House
- Parish Church of Saint Edward
- Rempstone Hall
- Blashenwell Farm House
- The Old School and School House
- Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church
- National Trust Shop
- The Gift Shop and Lloyds Bank
- William Pointer Monument in the Churchyard
- Clealls Stores
- Lytel Woning
- Stables
- The Bankes Arms Hotel
- The Old Saddlery
- Nos 40 and 42
- The Scott Arms
- Castle Tea Room and Garden
- Messrs T R and P D Clews Shop and Store
- Richard Taylor Monument, in the Churchyard
- Hollands Shop
- Hatchards Antiques
and 32 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Bucknowle Roman villaWikidata place
- Bucknowle FarmWikidata place
- Purbeck Mining MuseumWikidata place
- Brenscombe HeathWikidata place
- Furzey IslandWikidata place
- Green IslandWikidata place
- Long IslandWikidata place
- Round IslandWikidata place
- Wytch FarmWikidata place
- NordenWikidata place
- WoolgarstonWikidata place
- HOUSEAerial survey feature
- FLOWER BED\GARDEN FEATURE\GARDEN PATHAerial survey feature
- POUNDAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- PIT\HOLLOWAerial survey feature
- SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- BUILDING PLATFORMAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Corfe Castle1.1 km north-west
- Rempstone Stone Circle2.8 km east
- Iron Age settlement3.9 km south-west
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.