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LiDAR map of Swell
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Swell, a parish in Gloucestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 53 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 15 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 14 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 160 m and 220 m above sea level; its highest point is about 235 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 8 barrows or cairns, 4 long barrows or chambered tombs and 2 Roman sites.
Swell 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 Swell, 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 Swell. 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 Swell. 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 15 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Swell 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 (15 features in the parish) and the 53 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
- 14.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 53
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 160–220 m above sea level; highest 235 m
- ONS code
- E04004274
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Poleswood East long barrow 850m NNW of St Mary`s ChurchScheduled monument
- Five bowl barrows 300m north of Chalk Hill Cottage; part of the Cow Common round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 260m north of Chalk Hill Cottage; part of the Cow Common round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Long barrow 400m north-east of Chalk Hill CottageScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 450m north-east of Chalk Hill Cottage; part of the Cow Common round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 100m north-east of Slatepit CoppiceScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 500m south-east of Swell Wold FarmScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows in Oldfurze CovertScheduled monument
- Lower Swell long barrow 400m north-west of St Mary`s ChurchScheduled monument
- Poleswood South long barrow 950m north-west of St Mary`s ChurchScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 80m north of Arch HollowScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 650m north east of Upper SwellScheduled monument
- Romano-British villa 350m south east of AbbotswoodScheduled monument
- Roman burials, medieval settlement remains and a later ditched enclosure east of St Mary's ChurchScheduled monument
- AbbotswoodRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Lower Swell War Memorial
- Manor House
- Church of St Mary
- Pineapple Spa Spa Cottages
- Old Farmhouse Hotel
- Lower Swell Primary School Room
- Retaining Walls of Lily Pond, Flanking Garden
- Railings and Gate 20 Yards South West
- Traveller's Joy
- Golden Ball Inn
- Water Mill
- Cross Base 15 Yards South
- Creamery 100 Yards
- Fenwick Chest Tomb 20 Yards North
- Milestone 1 Furlong Southeast of Fox Farmhouse
- Bridge Over River Dickler
- Mile Stone
- Millhouse
Other recorded places
- Battle of Stow-on-the-WoldWikidata place
- Upper SwellWikidata place
- QuarwoodWikidata place
- SwellWikidata place
- FIELD BOUNDARY\VILLAAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Notgrove Long Barrow8.0 km south-west
- Spoonley Wood Roman villa11.3 km west
- Hazleton long barrows, north and south11.3 km south-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.