Home LiDAR map Oxfordshire Ashbury
LiDAR map of Ashbury
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ashbury, a parish in Oxfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 40 recorded places here: 24 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 93 m and 203 m above sea level; its highest point is about 227 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site and 1 barrow or cairn.
Ashbury 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 Ashbury, 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 Ashbury. 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 Ashbury. 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 24 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Ashbury 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 (24 features in the parish) and the 40 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
- Oxfordshire, England
- Area
- 22.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 40
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 93–203 m above sea level; highest 227 m
- ONS code
- E04008191
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Alfred's CastleAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Ashdown HouseRegistered park or garden
- Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow, including an earlier barrow and Iron Age and Roman boundary ditchesScheduled monument
- Three round barrows forming the core of a dispersed barrow cemetery on Idstone DownScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Ashdown House
- Church of St Mary
- Ashdown House, Pavilion
- Ashdown House, Pavilion
- The Manor House
- Ashbury War Memorial
- Lower Mill Old Mill
- The Village Hall
- Upper Mill
Other recorded places
- Ashdown HouseWikidata place
- IdstoneWikidata place
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- DITCH\ENCLOSURE\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- PIT\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- DITCH\DRAIN\ENCLOSURE\MOATAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW CEMETERY\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW CEMETERY\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROW\CHAMBERED LONG BARROW\FIELD BOUNDARY\LYNCHET\MORTUARY HOUSE\OVAL BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\VILLAAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Wayland's Smithy1.3 km north-east
- Hardwell Camp2.6 km north-east
- Alfred's Castle2.7 km south
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.