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LiDAR map of Dowdeswell
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Dowdeswell, a parish in Gloucestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 30 recorded places here: 12 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 145 m and 281 m above sea level; its highest point is about 298 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn and 1 long barrow or chambered tomb.
Dowdeswell 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 Dowdeswell, 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 Dowdeswell. 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 Dowdeswell. 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 12 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Dowdeswell 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 (12 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
- Gloucestershire, England
- Area
- 8.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 30
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 145–281 m above sea level; highest 298 m
- ONS code
- E04004220
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- The Castles, DowdeswellAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Unnamed, DowdeswellAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Camp at Upper DowdeswellScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow known as St Paul's Epistle MoundScheduled monument
- Lineover long barrow, 530m south west of Castle Barn FarmScheduled monument
- Dowdeswell CourtRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Church of Saint Michael and All Saints
- Dowdeswell Lodge
- Dowdeswell House
- The Manor House/dowdeswell Place
- The Eight Gabled House
- Nathaniel Okey Monument in the Churchyard
- Gates, Railings and Wall Forming Boundary
- Surround to Village Water Supply
- William Rogers, Thomas Rogers and Anthony
Other recorded places
- Dowdeswell ReservoirWikidata place
- Lineover WoodWikidata place
- DowdeswellWikidata place
- HILLFORT\UNIVALLATE HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- BARROW\LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- PLOUGH HEADLAND\QUARRY\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- PLOUGH HEADLAND\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- RAILWAY CUTTING\RAILWAY EMBANKMENTAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRY\SPOIL HEAPAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\LYNCHET\PLOUGH HEADLANDAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- GARDEN FEATUREAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- CULTIVATION TERRACE\LYNCHETAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Belas Knap6.8 km north
- Hazleton long barrows, north and south7.7 km east
- Chedworth Roman Villa8.0 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.