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LiDAR map of Symondsbury
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Symondsbury, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 42 recorded places here: 25 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 19 m and 104 m above sea level; its highest point is about 161 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns.
Symondsbury 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 Symondsbury, 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 Symondsbury. 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 Symondsbury. 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 25 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Symondsbury 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 (25 features in the parish) and the 42 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
- 17.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 42
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 19–104 m above sea level; highest 161 m
- ONS code
- E04013388
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow on Eype Down 275m east of Frogmore FarmScheduled monument
- Three bowl barrows north east of Thorncombe Beacon, 160m, 190m and 400m south west of Down HouseScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Symondsbury Parish Church
- Symondsbury War Memorial
- Oakhayes Oakhayes, Formerly Listed As Rectory
- Ilchester Arms
- Broadoak Church
- Churchyard Steps and Raised Pavement of 50 Metres
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- St Peter's ChurchWikidata place
- St Saviour's Church, DotteryWikidata place
- Thorncombe BeaconWikidata place
- West BayWikidata place
- Bridport PrioryWikidata place
- AtrimWikidata place
- EypeWikidata place
- PymoreWikidata place
- ANTI TANK CUBEAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROW\MOUNDAerial survey feature
- KILNAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Marshwood Castle5.5 km north-west
- Shipton Hill Settlement6.7 km east
- Coney's Castle8.0 km north-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.