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LiDAR map of Melcombe Horsey
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Melcombe Horsey, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 15 recorded places here: 6 listed buildings, 5 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 119 m and 218 m above sea level; its highest point is about 263 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 deserted villages, 1 enclosure or other earthwork, 1 hillfort and 1 settlement.
Melcombe Horsey 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 Melcombe Horsey, 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 Melcombe Horsey. 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 Melcombe Horsey. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Melcombe Horsey 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 and the 15 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
- 8.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 15
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 119–218 m above sea level; highest 263 m
- ONS code
- E04003567
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Nettlecombe ToutAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Melcombe Horsey deserted villageScheduled monument
- Earthwork and ancient fields SE of Lyscombe BottomScheduled monument
- Camp on Nettlecombe ToutScheduled monument
- Bingham's Melcombe deserted villageScheduled monument
- Ancient settlement E of Lyscombe BottomScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Bingham's Melcombe House
- Church of St Andrew
- Higher Melcombe House
- Sunday School
- Bridge Over the Devil's Brook
- Mill
Other recorded places
- Lyscombe HillWikidata place
- Dorsetshire GapWikidata place
- Melcombe HorseyWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Hillfort and later strip lynchets on Dungeon Hill6.9 km north-west
- Cerne Abbas Giant7.9 km west
- Cerne Abbey7.9 km 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.