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LiDAR map of Dorchester
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Dorchester, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 113 recorded places here: 69 listed buildings, 22 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 4 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 56 m and 99 m above sea level; its highest point is about 114 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 Roman sites.
Dorchester 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 Dorchester, 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 Dorchester. 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 Dorchester. 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 22 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Dorchester 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 (22 features in the parish) and the 113 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
- 7.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 113
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 56–99 m above sea level; highest 114 m
- ONS code
- E04003533
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Dorchester Roman wallsScheduled monument
- PoundburyAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Henge, Romano-British amphitheatre and Civil War fieldworks known collectively as Maumbury RingsScheduled monument
- Part of Roman, Saxon, and medieval town in grounds of Wollaston HouseScheduled monument
- Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's ConventScheduled monument
- Borough Gardens, DorchesterRegistered park or garden
- Roman amphitheater at Durno(no)variaAncient place (Pleiades)
- Roman Town House, DorchesterAncient place (Pleiades)
- Durno(no)variaAncient place (Pleiades)
- Poundbury hillfortAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Max Gate
- Roman House
- Municipal Buildings
- Kings Arms Hotel
- Church of St George
- The Shire Hall
- Church of St Peter. Railings on East and South
- The Dorset Martyrs Memorial
- Church of St Mary
- Antelope Hotel
- Fordington Mill
- Dorchester War Memorial
- Church of All Saints. Railings at west end
- South Lodge
- Colliton House
- The Old Ship Public House
- Roman Wall
- Former Hospital, Marabout Barracks
- Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity
- Former Riding School, Marabout Barracks
- North West Block of Former Infantry Barracks
- The Foundry
- Monument to William Barnes in Churchyard
- Infant School
- Bonded Warehouse and Former Bottling Stores
- Former Smithy Between Nos 4 and 5
- Dorset Military Museum
- The Town Pump
- The Old Malthouse
- Dorchester West Station
and 39 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Dorchester CastleWikidata place
- HM Prison DorchesterWikidata place
- FlagstonesWikidata place
- Dorchester HospitalWikidata place
- Dorset County HospitalWikidata place
- Dorset History CentreWikidata place
- The Avenue StadiumWikidata place
- Dorchester South railway stationWikidata place
- Fordington LibertyWikidata place
- PoundburyWikidata place
- Dorchester?Roman inscription
- DorchesterRoman inscription
- AQUEDUCTAerial survey feature
- HENGEAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Maumbury Rings430 m south
- Dorchester Roman walls520 m north-east
- Poundbury Hill1.1 km north-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Winterborne Monkton
- Bradford Peverell
- Winterborne Came
- Winterborne Herringston
- West Stafford
- Stinsford
- Charminster
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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.