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LiDAR map of Tarrant Launceston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Tarrant Launceston, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 48 recorded places here: 40 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 62 m and 108 m above sea level; its highest point is about 124 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 1 long barrow or chambered tomb and 1 Roman site.
Tarrant Launceston 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 Tarrant Launceston, 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 Tarrant Launceston. 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 Tarrant Launceston. 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 40 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Tarrant Launceston 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 (40 features in the parish) and the 48 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
- 6.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 48
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 62–108 m above sea level; highest 124 m
- ONS code
- E04003449
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow 600m south of Plantation FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 700m south of Old TurnpikeScheduled monument
- Round barrow cemetery in Hyde Hill PlantationScheduled monument
- Round barrow cemetery 400m and 500m south east of Hyde Hill PlantationScheduled monument
- Long barrow 820m south east of Telegraph ClumpScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement and two bowl barrows on Blandford Race Down 450m south east of Telegraph ClumpScheduled monument
Other recorded places
- Great Dorset Steam FairWikidata place
- Tarrant LauncestonWikidata place
- BARROW\BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
- SLIT TRENCH\TRENCHAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
- BOMBING RANGE\BOMBING RANGE MARKERAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY\STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- BARROW\BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Long barrows SE of Thickthorn Farm3.5 km north-east
- Buzbury Rings4.9 km south-west
- South Lodge camp Bronze Age enclosure with associated7.4 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.