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LiDAR map of Shapwick
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Shapwick, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 84 recorded places here: 70 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 scheduled monuments, 3 listed buildings, 2 ancient places (Pleiades), 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 25 m and 69 m above sea level; its highest point is about 100 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 Roman sites and 3 barrows or cairns.
Shapwick 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 Shapwick, 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 Shapwick. 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 Shapwick. 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 70 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Shapwick 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 (70 features in the parish) and the 84 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
- 10.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 84
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 25–69 m above sea level; highest 100 m
- ONS code
- E04003380
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Badbury RingsScheduled monument
- Section of Roman road NW of Badbury RingsScheduled monument
- Group of round barrows NW of Badbury RingsScheduled monument
- Straw BarrowScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows and a disc barrow 960m north west and a bowl barrow 880m north west of Crab FarmScheduled monument
- Roman fort at Crab FarmScheduled monument
- Section of Roman road near Badbury RingsScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement SW of Badbury RingsScheduled monument
- Badbury RingsAncient place (Pleiades)
- VindocladiaAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- ShapwickWikidata place
- FORTAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROW\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROW\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROW\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY DITCH\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY DITCH\ENCLOSURE\EXTRACTIVE PITAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY DITCH\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- EXTRACTIVE PIT\NATURAL FEATUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Badbury Rings2.0 km east
- Buzbury Rings4.5 km north-west
- Long barrows SE of Thickthorn Farm10.3 km north
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.