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LiDAR map of Chewton Mendip
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Chewton Mendip, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 68 recorded places here: 34 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 21 scheduled monuments, 6 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 155 m and 276 m above sea level; its highest point is about 304 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 16 barrows or cairns, 4 long barrows or chambered tombs and 1 industrial site.
Chewton Mendip 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 Chewton Mendip, 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 Chewton Mendip. 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 Chewton Mendip. 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 Chewton Mendip 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 68 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
- 23.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 68
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 155–276 m above sea level; highest 304 m
- ONS code
- E04008548
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Pair of bowl barrows 405m east of East Water Drove (Part of Priddy Nine Barrows Cemetery)Scheduled monument
- Two round barrows 600yds (550m) ENE of Green OreScheduled monument
- Round barrows SW of Cleeve's PlantationScheduled monument
- Four round barrows SE of Miners' Arms Inn, Chewton Rabbit WarrenScheduled monument
- Round barrow 1435m SE of Miners' Arms InnScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 520m south-east of Red Quar FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 450m south-east of Red Quar FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 570m west of Newlands FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 300m west of Newlands FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 300m south west of Harptree LodgeScheduled monument
- Ashen Hill barrow cemetery: a group of eight round barrows 500m southeast of Harptree LodgeScheduled monument
- Long barrow 230m east of Chewton PlotScheduled monument
- Long barrow 370m south-south-east of Castle FarmScheduled monument
- Long barrow 180m north of Lime HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 70m east of Barrow House FarmScheduled monument
- Group of three bowl barrows and one long barrow 90m northeast of Barrow House FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Stock Hill: part of the Stock Hill round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Stock Hill: part of the Stock Hill round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Five bowl barrows 500m north west of Cuckoo Cleeves: part of the Stock Hill round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Barrow, 350m east of Harptree LodgeScheduled monument
- St Cuthbert's and Chewton lead mines and Fair Lady WellScheduled monument
- Ashen Hill BarrowsAncient place (Pleiades)
- Green OreAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Churchyard Cross in Churchyard
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Chewton Mendip War Memorial
- Lime Kiln at Ngr
- Former Parish Boundary Stone at Ngr
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Attborough SwalletWikidata place
- Priddy MineriesWikidata place
- Priddy PoolsWikidata place
- Stock HillWikidata place
- Chewton MendipWikidata place
- STOCK ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- LEAD MINEAerial survey feature
- LEAD MINEAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- LEAD MINEAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BARROW CEMETERYAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Richmont Castle3.7 km north-west
- Drove Cottage Henge4.0 km south-west
- Burledge Hill5.6 km north
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.