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LiDAR map of Wantage
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wantage, a parish in Oxfordshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 59 recorded places here: 44 listed buildings, 12 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 92 m and 208 m above sea level; its highest point is about 239 m.
Wantage 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 Wantage, 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 Wantage. 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 Wantage. 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 12 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Wantage 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 (12 features in the parish) and the 59 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
- 12.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 59
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 92–208 m above sea level; highest 239 m
- ONS code
- E04012874
Listed buildings
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Chapel attached to St Mary's Convent
- White Lodge, St Mary's Convent
- Ham House
- St Mary's Convent
- Statue of King Alfred
- Chapel
- Headstone
- Gateway and flanking walls to St Mary's Convent
- Well Head
- The Lamb Public House
- The Kings Arms Public House
- Post Office Vaults
- The Bear Hotel
- The Swan Inn Public House
- Chest Tomb
- The Woolpack Public House
- Vale and Downland Museum Centre
- Ham Mill
- The Mill
- King Alfred's Head Public House
- The Bell Inn Public House
- St Mary's School
- C'est Si Bon Restaurant Francais
- Victoria Cross Gallery
- Barclays Bank
- Chest Tomb
- Blue Boar Hotel
- Stabling at Stirlings
- Remains of Market Cross Inside Number 19
and 14 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Chain HillWikidata place
- Wantage railway stationWikidata place
- East ChallowWikidata place
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\HUT CIRCLE\SETTLEMENT\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- CROFT\SETTLEMENT\TOFTAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\PIT\SETTLEMENT\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENT\STOCK ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE\HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE\RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- BANJO ENCLOSURE\PIT\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Segsbury Camp2.1 km south-west
- Scutchamer Knob5.4 km east
- Uffington White Horse10.2 km 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.