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LiDAR map of Southam
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Southam, a parish in Gloucestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 30 recorded places here: 14 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 76 m and 312 m above sea level; its highest point is about 330 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 barrow or cairn.
Southam 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 Southam, 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 Southam. 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 Southam. 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 14 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Southam 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 (14 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
- 15.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 30
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 76–312 m above sea level; highest 330 m
- ONS code
- E04013269
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Earthwork on Cleeve CommonScheduled monument
- Cleeve CloudAtlas of Hillforts entry
- The Ring, Cleeve Hill, BrockhamptonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 680m south east of Piccadilly FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Ellenborough Park Hotel
- Church of the Ascension
- Southam Tithe Barn and Shelter Shed
- Manor Farmhouse
- Water Conduit
- Monument to Lord Ellenborough's Aides
- Cross Finial
- Former mill building and millpond at The Mill
- Southam and Cleeve Hill War Memorial
Other recorded places
- Cleeve HillWikidata place
- Cleeve CommonWikidata place
- SouthamWikidata place
- BUILDING PLATFORM\HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- GOLF COURSEAerial survey feature
- BIVALLATE HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- GUN BATTERY\SEARCHLIGHT EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- CULTIVATION TERRACE\LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- GOLF COURSEAerial survey feature
- DYKE (DEFENCE)Aerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- RIFLE BUTTS\RIFLE RANGEAerial survey feature
- GOLF COURSE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BUILDING PLATFORM\GOLF COURSEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Belas Knap3.5 km east
- Winchcombe Abbey5.1 km north-east
- Spoonley Wood Roman villa6.0 km 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.