LiDAR map of Morden
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Morden, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 46 recorded places here: 27 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 24 m and 65 m above sea level; its highest point is about 102 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns.
Morden 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 Morden, 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 Morden. 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 Morden. 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 27 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Morden 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 (27 features in the parish) and the 46 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
- 14.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 46
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 24–65 m above sea level; highest 102 m
- ONS code
- E04012324
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- The White Barrow, a bowl barrow 660m south west of the Round HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 800m NNW of West Morden FarmScheduled monument
- Beacon mound on Beacon HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Morden Park 350m south west of Hunting BridgeScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows on Furze Hill, 800m north east of Miller's FarmScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 760m north east of Miller's FarmScheduled monument
- Charborough ParkRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of Saint Mary, Charborough
- Charborough Park
- Home Farm House
- Peacock Lodge
- Statue in Former Fountain
- The Deer Monument
- Parish Church of Saint Mary
- Morden Mill
- The Cock and Bottle Inn
Other recorded places
- Church VillaWikidata place
- MordenWikidata place
- AlmerWikidata place
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- EXTRACTIVE PIT\SPRINGAerial survey feature
- MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- EARTHWORK\NATURAL FEATUREAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENT\HOLLOW WAYAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Woolsbarrow Hillfort3.5 km south-west
- Woodbury Hill Camp5.5 km west
- St Martin's Church, Wareham7.9 km south
Neighbouring parishes
- Wareham St. Martin
- Lytchett Minster and Upton
- Bloxworth
- Lytchett Matravers
- Winterborne Zelston
- Sturminster Marshall
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.