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LiDAR map of Cheddar
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cheddar, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 88 recorded places here: 34 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 23 scheduled monuments, 21 places recorded in Wikidata, 8 listed buildings, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 254 m above sea level; its highest point is about 299 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 13 barrows or cairns, 1 military site and 1 Roman site.
Cheddar 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 Cheddar, 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 Cheddar. 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 Cheddar. 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 34 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cheddar 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 (34 features in the parish) and the 88 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
- Somerset, England
- Area
- 34.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 88
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–254 m above sea level; highest 299 m
- ONS code
- E04008617
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Saye's Hole, Cheddar GorgeScheduled monument
- Sun Hole, Cheddar GorgeScheduled monument
- Gough's Cave, Cheddar GorgeScheduled monument
- Gough's Old CaveScheduled monument
- Great Oone's HoleScheduled monument
- Soldier's Hole, Cheddar GorgeScheduled monument
- Gorsey Bigbury earth circle and round barrow near LongwoodScheduled monument
- Twin round barrows 750yds (696m) N of Bowpit FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 330m east of Batts Coombe QuarryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 300m east of Batts Coombe QuarryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 350m east of Batts Coombe QuarryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 91m south of Piney Sleight FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 400m southeast of Wellington FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 300m north east of Tyning's FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 250m south west of Ashridge FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 190m south west of Tyning's Farm: part of the Tyning's Farm round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Group of three bowl barrows 180m south of Tyning's Farm: part of the Tyning's Farm round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 75m south west of Long House BarnScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 250m south east of Tyning's Farm: part of the Tyning's Farm round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- World War II anti-aircraft rocket battery and bombing decoy control building 265m north east of Ashridge FarmScheduled monument
- Duck decoy 175m south west of Parson's FarmScheduled monument
- Duck decoy, west of Nyland HillScheduled monument
- Roman settlement site, Anglo-Saxon and Norman royal palace, and St Columbanus' ChapelScheduled monument
- Gough's CaveAncient place (Pleiades)
- Cheddar GorgeAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Market Cross
- Church of St Andrew
- Cheddar War Memorial
- Church Farm House and Church Farmhouse
- Former Chapel Dedicated to St Columbanus, Now
- Baptist Chapel
- The Kings Head
- War memorial at the Church of St Andrew, Cheddar
Other recorded places
- Reservoir HoleWikidata place
- Charterhouse CaveWikidata place
- Cox's CaveWikidata place
- GB CaveWikidata place
- Longwood SwalletWikidata place
- Rhino RiftWikidata place
- Tyning's Barrow SwalletWikidata place
- Cheddar WoodWikidata place
- Batts Combe QuarryWikidata place
- Callow Rock QuarryWikidata place
- Cheddar AlesWikidata place
- Cheddar ComplexWikidata place
- Cheddar ReservoirWikidata place
- Fairlands Middle SchoolWikidata place
- Kingdown and MiddledownWikidata place
- Mendips RacewayWikidata place
- Perch SSSIWikidata place
- Cheddar railway stationWikidata place
- CheddarWikidata place
- NylandWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Market Cross420 m north-west
- Gough's Cave1.2 km north-east
- Westbury Camp3.5 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.