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LiDAR map of Spetisbury
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Spetisbury, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 35 recorded places here: 23 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 29 m and 88 m above sea level; its highest point is about 121 m.
Spetisbury 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 Spetisbury, 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 Spetisbury. 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 Spetisbury. 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 23 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Spetisbury 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 (23 features in the parish) and the 35 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
- 9.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 35
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 29–88 m above sea level; highest 121 m
- ONS code
- E04003437
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Spettisbury RingsAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Spetisbury RingsAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St John
- Crawford Bridge
- Cedar Court
- Rackett Monument, in the Churchyard
- Layton
- Milestone
- Spetisbury War Memorial
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Spetisbury PrioryWikidata place
- Spetisbury railway stationWikidata place
- HILLFORT\UNIVALLATE HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROW\OVAL BARROWAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLE\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLE\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENT\SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- OVAL BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Buzbury Rings4.3 km north
- Badbury Rings6.0 km east
- Woodbury Hill Camp8.6 km south-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.
- © 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.