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LiDAR map of Tarrant Rawston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Tarrant Rawston, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 30 recorded places here: 20 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 scheduled monuments, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 46 m and 94 m above sea level; its highest point is about 110 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns, 1 cross, 1 long barrow or chambered tomb and 1 Roman site.
Tarrant Rawston 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 Rawston, 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 Rawston. 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 Rawston. 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 20 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Tarrant Rawston 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 (20 features in the parish) and the 30 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
- 4.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 30
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 46–94 m above sea level; highest 110 m
- ONS code
- E04010501
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow 470m south east of Ashley Wood Golf Club HouseScheduled monument
- Cross-ridge dyke on Rawston DownScheduled monument
- Long barrow and two bowl barrows 140m north west of Dormy HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on The Cliff 775m NNW of Smith's CottagesScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on The Cliff 680m NNW of Smith's CottagesScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on The Cliff 680m east of Luton FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 400m ESE of Ashley Wood Golf Club HouseScheduled monument
- Roman enclosure on Keyneston DownScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- DYKE (DEFENCE)Aerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
- DITCH\ENCLOSED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- DYKE (DEFENCE)Aerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROW\BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- DYKE (DEFENCE)Aerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Buzbury Rings1.3 km south-west
- Badbury Rings5.0 km south-east
- Long barrows SE of Thickthorn Farm7.1 km north-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.