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LiDAR map of Lytchett Minster and Upton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Lytchett Minster and Upton, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 31 recorded places here: 17 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 listed buildings, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 46 m above sea level; its highest point is about 92 m.
Lytchett Minster and Upton 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 Lytchett Minster and Upton, 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 Lytchett Minster and Upton. 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 Lytchett Minster and Upton. 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 17 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Lytchett Minster and Upton 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 (17 features in the parish) and the 31 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
- 14.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 31
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–46 m above sea level; highest 92 m
- ONS code
- E04003478
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bulbury CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
Listed buildings
- Saint Aldhelm's Church
- Post Green House
- Parish Church
- Lych Gate to Saint Aldhelm's Church
- Lytchett Minster United Reformed Church
- Turnpike Boundary Marker Immediately
Other recorded places
- Upton Clock TowerWikidata place
- Beacon HillWikidata place
- Southampton and Dorchester RailwayWikidata place
- Lytchett Minster and UptonWikidata place
- UptonWikidata place
- OrganfordWikidata place
- SlepeWikidata place
- ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- DEFENDED LOCALITYAerial survey feature
- BRICKWORKSAerial survey feature
- STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- FEATUREAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- FEATUREAerial survey feature
- ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Woolsbarrow Hillfort7.7 km west
- St Martin's Church, Wareham7.7 km south-west
- Badbury Rings9.1 km north
Neighbouring parishes
- Wareham St. Martin
- Lytchett Matravers
- Morden
- Sturminster Marshall
- Corfe Mullen
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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.