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LiDAR map of Silchester
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Silchester, a parish in Hampshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 37 recorded places here: 21 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Roman inscriptions. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 63 m and 98 m above sea level; its highest point is about 102 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 enclosure or other earthwork, 1 church or chapel and 1 moated site.
Silchester 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 Silchester, 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 Silchester. 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 Silchester. 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 21 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Silchester 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 (21 features in the parish) and the 37 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
- Hampshire, England
- Area
- 7.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 37
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 63–98 m above sea level; highest 102 m
- ONS code
- E04004476
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Calleva AtrebatumAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Flex DitchScheduled monument
- Linear earthwork in Gravelpit Copse and near Byes Lane, south west of SilchesterScheduled monument
- Three sections of a linear earthwork between Churchlane Copse and Early Bridge Copse, south of SilchesterScheduled monument
- Moated site and associated fishponds 100m south of Clappers FarmScheduled monument
- CallevaAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Silchester Ogham stoneWikidata place
- Silchester HouseWikidata place
- SilchesterWikidata place
- Calleva MuseumWikidata place
- SilchesterRoman inscription
- SilchesterRoman inscription
- VILLAAerial survey feature
- BATH HOUSEAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM\PLOUGH HEADLANDAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\BOUNDARY BANK\DITCH\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- DYKE (DEFENCE)Aerial survey feature
- DYKE (DEFENCE)\LINEAR EARTHWORKAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- CIVITAS CAPITAL\TOWN DEFENCESAerial survey feature
- PALAEOCHANNELAerial survey feature
- PARK PALEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD SYSTEM\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- CIVITAS CAPITAL\TOWN DEFENCESAerial survey feature
- CIVITAS CAPITAL\TOWN DEFENCESAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Calleva Atrebatum860 m north
- The Frith1.9 km north-west
- Bullsdown Camp4.5 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.