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LiDAR map of Sturminster Marshall
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Sturminster Marshall, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 44 recorded places here: 30 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 24 m and 71 m above sea level; its highest point is about 107 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn and 1 medieval settlement.
Sturminster Marshall 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 Sturminster Marshall, 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 Sturminster Marshall. 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 Sturminster Marshall. 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 30 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Sturminster Marshall 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 (30 features in the parish) and the 44 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
- 20.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 44
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 24–71 m above sea level; highest 107 m
- ONS code
- E04003382
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow 550m north east of Field Dairy FarmScheduled monument
- A shrunken medieval village and earlier prehistoric settlement remains at Walnut Tree FieldScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- White Mill Bridge
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Sturminster Marshall War Memorial
- Henbury Hall Henbury House
- Footbridge Over the River Winterbourne
- Milestone at Junction of Road to the World's End
Other recorded places
- Bailey Gate railway stationWikidata place
- River WinterborneWikidata place
- Combe AlmerWikidata place
- Sturminster MarshallWikidata place
- HenburyWikidata place
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\ORCHARDAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\STRIP FIELDAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Badbury Rings4.5 km north-east
- Buzbury Rings5.7 km north
- Woolsbarrow Hillfort8.5 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Lytchett Minster and Upton
- Lytchett Matravers
- Morden
- Winterborne Zelston
- Anderson
- Spetisbury
- Shapwick
- Corfe Mullen
- Pamphill
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.