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LiDAR map of Spelsbury
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Spelsbury, a parish in Oxfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 31 recorded places here: 13 scheduled monuments, 11 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 118 m and 182 m above sea level; its highest point is about 206 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 2 henges and standing stones, 1 long barrow or chambered tomb and 1 Roman site.
Spelsbury 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 Spelsbury, 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 Spelsbury. 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 Spelsbury. 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 Spelsbury 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 31 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
- 18.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 31
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 118–182 m above sea level; highest 206 m
- ONS code
- E04008324
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ditchley ParkRegistered park or garden
- Taston standing stone 12m north of Taston village crossScheduled monument
- Hawk Stone standing stone 700m south of Claridges BarnScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow situated in Round Clump, Ditchley ParkScheduled monument
- Long barrow 250m south of Ellen's Lodge in Shilcott Wood on the Ditchley Park EstateScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 80m south east of Spelsburydown Farm barnsScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 270m east of Spelsburydown Farm barnsScheduled monument
- Section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch 350m ENE of Ditchley HouseScheduled monument
- Barrow Place earthwork, 370m south west of Lodge Farm, DitchleyScheduled monument
- Section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch running into the northern edge of Shilcott Wood on the Ditchley EstateScheduled monument
- Ditchley Park Roman villa and part of an associated field system 450m ENE of Lodge FarmScheduled monument
- Taston village crossScheduled monument
- DitchleyAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Ditchley House
- Church of All Saints
- The Rotunda
- Lodge Farmhouse
- Dean Mill
- The Lion Court, Walled Gardens and Lion Gate
- Lake Head and Grotto
- Wayside Cross Base
- Gas House
- Group of Two Tombs
- Memorial Fountain
Other recorded places
- Pheleley PrioryWikidata place
- SpelsburyWikidata place
- DeanWikidata place
- TastonWikidata place
- DitchleyLost settlement
Nearest places with their own page
- Hawk Stone2.3 km north-west
- Knollbury4.2 km west
- Ascot d'Oilly Castle6.5 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.