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LiDAR map of Wimborne St. Giles
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wimborne St. Giles, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 79 recorded places here: 53 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 13 scheduled monuments, 8 listed buildings, 3 ancient places (Pleiades), 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 54 m and 101 m above sea level; its highest point is about 169 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 10 barrows or cairns and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Wimborne St. Giles 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 Wimborne St. Giles, 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 Wimborne St. Giles. 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 Wimborne St. Giles. 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 53 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
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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 (53 features in the parish) and the 79 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
- 24.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 79
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 54–101 m above sea level; highest 169 m
- ONS code
- E04003387
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Group of round barrows on Oakley DownScheduled monument
- Parts of Dorset Cursus on Bottlebush DownScheduled monument
- Boundary banks on Rye Hill and in Maldry WoodScheduled monument
- Camp at Nine YewsScheduled monument
- Two round barrows S of Cranborne FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 45m south west of Bowldish PondScheduled monument
- Barrows in and near St Giles ParkScheduled monument
- Barrows in and near The Drive PlantationScheduled monument
- Barrows near Dorset CursusScheduled monument
- Barrow 30yds (27m) E of Dorset CursusScheduled monument
- Four bowl barrows 865m north east of Squirrel's CornerScheduled monument
- Barrows in Salisbury PlantationScheduled monument
- St Giles' HouseRegistered park or garden
- Barrows N of St Giles ParkScheduled monument
- Ackling DykeAncient place (Pleiades)
- Dorset CursusAncient place (Pleiades)
- Oakley DownAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Sixpenny Handley and PentridgeWikidata place
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\PITAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\PITAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\PIT\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\PIT\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BARROW\PIT\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BARROW\PIT\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Group of round barrows on Oakley Down5.6 km north-west
- Wor Barrow and two bowl barrows on Handley Down5.9 km north-west
- Long barrows SE of Thickthorn Farm7.0 km 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.