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LiDAR map of Cranborne
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cranborne, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 25 recorded places here: 13 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 60 m and 137 m above sea level; its highest point is about 180 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle.
Cranborne 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 Cranborne, 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 Cranborne. 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 Cranborne. 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 13 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cranborne 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 (13 features in the parish) and the 25 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
- 17.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 25
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 60–137 m above sea level; highest 180 m
- ONS code
- E04003366
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Castle mound (or Castle Hill)Scheduled monument
- Boveridge House SchoolRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Cranborne Manor House
- Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew
- Cranborne Lodge
- St Aldhelm's Chapel
- Cranborne War Memorial
- Carriage House
- Approximately 360m of Garden Wall Enclosing
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Boulsbury WoodWikidata place
- BoveridgeWikidata place
- CASTLE\MOTTE AND BAILEYAerial survey feature
- SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION SITEAerial survey feature
- SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION SITEAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSURE\EXTRACTIVE PITAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROW\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BARROW\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Group of round barrows on Oakley Down4.7 km north-west
- Wor Barrow and two bowl barrows on Handley Down5.2 km north-west
- Bronze Age and Romano-British enclosure on Martin Down5.4 km north
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.