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LiDAR map of Tarrant Monkton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Tarrant Monkton, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 61 recorded places here: 49 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 56 m and 105 m above sea level; its highest point is about 116 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns.
Tarrant Monkton 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 Monkton, 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 Monkton. 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 Monkton. 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 49 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Tarrant Monkton 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 (49 features in the parish) and the 61 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
- 7.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 61
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 56–105 m above sea level; highest 116 m
- ONS code
- E04010500
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow 620m south east of Langton Lodge FarmScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows at the south west corner of Pond Bottom Plantation, 1480m and 1520m NNW of Down BarnScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 850m ENE of LangbourneScheduled monument
- HemsworthAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of All Saints
- Tarrant Monkton and Launceston War Memorial
- The Langton Arms
- Footbridge Over the River Tarrant of Monkton Ford
Other recorded places
- Blandford CampWikidata place
- Defence College of Communications and InformationWikidata place
- Royal Signals MuseumWikidata place
- Tarrant MonktonWikidata place
- ROADAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGE\TOFTAerial survey feature
- WATER CHANNEL\WATERCOURSEAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RADAR BEACONAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEM\FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- REFUSE DESTRUCTOR STATION\REFUSE DISPOSAL PLANTAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMP\PRACTICE TRENCHAerial survey feature
- ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN EMPLACEMENT\LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- TEMPORARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- FIRING RANGE\RIFLE BUTTSAerial survey feature
- FIRING RANGE\TARGETAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Buzbury Rings3.1 km south-west
- Long barrows SE of Thickthorn Farm5.1 km north-east
- Badbury Rings5.9 km south-east
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.