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LiDAR map of Milton Abbas
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Milton Abbas, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 49 recorded places here: 29 listed buildings, 11 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 scheduled monuments, 1 registered park or garden, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 113 m and 206 m above sea level; its highest point is about 271 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 1 field system and 1 monastic site.
Milton Abbas 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 Milton Abbas, 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 Milton Abbas. 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 Milton Abbas. 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 11 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Milton Abbas 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 (11 features in the parish) and the 49 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
- 17.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 49
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 113–206 m above sea level; highest 271 m
- ONS code
- E04003429
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Field system on Green DownScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 650m north west of Long Ash FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Green Hill 350m north west of Keepers CottageScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Ruins Plantation 200m east of The RetreatScheduled monument
- Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore FarmScheduled monument
- Milton AbbeyRegistered park or garden
- Park Pale of Milton Abbey deer parkScheduled monument
- Deserted town of Milton AbbasScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Milton Abbey School
- Garden House, Delcome Manor
- Delcombe Manor
- Chapel of Saint Catherine
- Abbey Church of St Mary, St Sansom and St
- The Abbot's Hall and Kitchen, Milton Abbey
- Parish Church of St James
- The Stone Lodge, and the Gatehouse
- The Old Rectory
- Park Farm Museum
- The Hambro Arms Inn
- Crossbase Approx
- Green Walk
- Stone Urn
- The Old Forge
- Milton Mill and Mill House
- Former Milton Abbas Primary School
- Post Office and Village Store
- The Ruins
- Footbridge Leading From Grounds of Milton Abbey
- Entrance Gates and Gatepiers to Milton Abbey
and 8 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- DorsetWikidata place
- CHALK PIT/FLINT MINEAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- FLINT MINEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- CARRIAGEWAYAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- TERRACED GROUND\GARDEN FEATUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Ringmoor7.1 km north
- Woodbury Hill Camp8.6 km south-east
- Hillfort on Banbury Hill10.5 km north
Neighbouring parishes
- Dewlish
- Milborne St. Andrew
- Winterborne Whitechurch
- Winterborne Clenston
- Hilton
- Winterborne Houghton
- Woolland
- Cheselbourne
- Ibberton
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.