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LiDAR map of Dorchester
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Dorchester, a parish in Oxfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 38 recorded places here: 32 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 Roman inscription. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 46 m and 50 m above sea level; its highest point is about 54 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site and 1 barrow or cairn.
Dorchester 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 Dorchester, 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 Dorchester. 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 Dorchester. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Dorchester 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 and the 38 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
- 4.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 38
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 46–50 m above sea level; highest 54 m
- ONS code
- E04008123
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Dyke HillsAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Roman townScheduled monument
- Ring ditches, cursus, enclosures and settlement siteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Churchyard Cross
- Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Church of St Birinus
- The George Hotel
- The Bridge and Causeway
- Abbey Guest House
- Bullyn
- The White Hart Hotel Bar
- The Toll House
- Overy Mill
- The White Hart Hotel
- Cooperative Stores and Warehiuse
- The Plough Public House
- Former Chequers Public House
- Dantredg Memorial
- Churchyard and Garden Wall
- Group of 3 Chest Tombs
- Row of 4 Headstones
- Chest Tomb
- Post Office
- Queenford Mill
- Row of 3 Headstones
- Millhouse at Overy Mill
- Church House
- The White Hart Hotel Restaurant
- Mike Offey Antiques
- The Old Forge
- Bridge End Close
- Lychgate
- Churchyard Wall
and 2 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Day's LockWikidata place
- Little Wittenham BridgeWikidata place
- Dorchester on ThamesRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Brightwell Barrow2.6 km south
- Carfax Conduit5.3 km north-west
- Wallingford Castle5.6 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.
- 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.