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LiDAR map of Minterne Magna
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Minterne Magna, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 23 recorded places here: 11 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 1 registered park or garden, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 90 m and 236 m above sea level; its highest point is about 267 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Minterne Magna 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 Minterne Magna, 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 Minterne Magna. 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 Minterne Magna. 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 Minterne Magna 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 23 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
- 10.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 23
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 90–236 m above sea level; highest 267 m
- ONS code
- E04003568
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Earthwork in Dogbury PlantationScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Little Minterne Hill, 1km north east of Minterne Parva FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Farm Hill 620m west of Minterne Parva FarmScheduled monument
- Platform barrow 300m south west of Lane CottagesScheduled monument
- Minterne HouseRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Minterne Magna House
- Church of St Andrew
- Roman Catholic Church
- Minterne Magna School
- Wayside Cross
- Park Bridge
Other recorded places
- Blackmoor Priory HermitageWikidata place
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM/LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- BROAD RIDGE AND FURROW/RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- BROAD RIDGE AND FURROW/RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- BROAD RIDGE AND FURROW/RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM/LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENT/FIELD SYSTEM/SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW/RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM/LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Hillfort and later strip lynchets on Dungeon Hill3.4 km north-east
- Cerne Abbas Giant4.3 km south
- Cerne Abbey4.5 km south
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.