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LiDAR map of Studland
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Studland, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 100 recorded places here: 71 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 11 scheduled monuments, 10 listed buildings, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 86 m above sea level; its highest point is about 172 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 10 barrows or cairns and 1 Roman site.
Studland 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 Studland, 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 Studland. 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 Studland. 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 71 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Studland 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 (71 features in the parish) and the 100 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
- 20.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 100
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–86 m above sea level; highest 172 m
- ONS code
- E04003482
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- The Ulwell Barrow 400m N of Sheperds FarmScheduled monument
- The Fishing Barrow on Godlingston HeathScheduled monument
- Five bowl barrows and a bell barrow forming a round barrow cemetery on the western part of Godlingston HeathScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows on Godlingston HeathScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Godlingston HeathScheduled monument
- The King Barrow 200m south east of The Warren WoodScheduled monument
- Group of three bell barrows and a bowl barrow on Godlingston HeathScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow at the eastern end of Ballard DownScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow west of Studland Bay HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 100m north west of Studland Bay HouseScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead and earlier structures at Woodhouse Hill, 230m south east of Harmony LodgeScheduled monument
- Gardens and pleasure grounds at BrownseaRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Brownsea Castle
- Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
- Gatehouse to Brownsea Castle at North Corner
- Church of Saint Mary
- Thomas Hobson Monument, in the Churchyard
- George Augustus Cavendish-bentink Monument
- Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard
- Francis Thornton Monument, in the Churchyard C20m
- Bankes Family Monument C3m
- Walden Aston Monument, in the Churchyard C10m
Nearest places with their own page
- Rempstone Stone Circle3.3 km south-west
- Corfe Castle6.6 km west
- Iron Age settlement9.8 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.