LiDAR map of Holt
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Holt, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 58 recorded places here: 45 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 21 m and 49 m above sea level; its highest point is about 65 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns.
Holt 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 Holt, 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 Holt. 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 Holt. 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 45 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Holt 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 (45 features in the parish) and the 58 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
- 24.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 58
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 21–49 m above sea level; highest 65 m
- ONS code
- E04013380
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- ColebarrowAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Bowl barrow on Summerlug Hill 250m south of Mannington FarmScheduled monument
- Bull Barrow on Holt HeathScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Dumpton SchoolWikidata place
- Furzehill WoodWikidata place
- Holt HeathWikidata place
- FurzehillWikidata place
- HoltWikidata place
- ManningtonWikidata place
- 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
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- PADDOCKAerial 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
- DRAINAGE DITCH\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- PLOUGH HEADLAND\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY BANK\FIELD BOUNDARY\MANORAerial survey feature
- BUILDING\WALLED GARDENAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Dudsbury Camp7.0 km south-east
- Badbury Rings7.5 km west
- Long barrows SE of Thickthorn Farm10.9 km north-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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.