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LiDAR map of Exmoor
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Exmoor, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 202 recorded places here: 162 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 30 scheduled monuments, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 348 m and 450 m above sea level; its highest point is about 487 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 15 barrows or cairns, 4 bridges, 2 henges and standing stones and 1 castle.
Exmoor 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 Exmoor, 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 Exmoor. 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 Exmoor. 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 162 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Exmoor 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 (162 features in the parish) and the 202 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
- 82.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 202
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 348–450 m above sea level; highest 487 m
- ONS code
- E04008839
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cow CastleScheduled monument
- Group of round barrows See also SOMERSET 170Scheduled monument
- Round barrow on Great Tom's HillScheduled monument
- Wood Barrow round barrow See also SOMERSET 168Scheduled monument
- Round barrow on RoosthitchenScheduled monument
- Black BarrowScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow called Chains BarrowScheduled monument
- Rexy Barrow, Little BuscombeScheduled monument
- Wood Barrow round barrow See also DEVON 238Scheduled monument
- 'Two Barrows', group of barrows (Hangley Cleave) See also DEVON 894Scheduled monument
- Round barrow 500yds (460m) WSW of Exe HeadScheduled monument
- Exe Plain stone alignment 425m north east of the sheepfoldScheduled monument
- East Pinford: a stone alignment on the west side of East Pinford 700m west of Long Combe sheep penScheduled monument
- Trout Hill 1: a stone setting on the north east end of Trout Hill 550m south west of the foot bridge over Badgworthy WaterScheduled monument
- Trout Hill 2: a stone setting on the north east end of Trout Hill 610m south of the foot bridge over Badgworthy WaterScheduled monument
- Trout Hill 3: a stone setting on the north east end of Trout Hill 850m SSW of the foot bridge over Badgeworthy WaterScheduled monument
- Two standing stones and a mound 200m WSW of Black Barrow, HoscombeScheduled monument
- Swap Hill standing stone 200m south east of the Long Combe sheep penScheduled monument
- Lanacombe 1: a stone setting and two cairns on the east side of LanacombeScheduled monument
- Lanacombe 2: a stone setting and cairn on the east side of LanacombeScheduled monument
- Lanacombe 3: a stone setting and cairn on the east side of LanacombeScheduled monument
- Lanacombe 4: a stone setting on the ENE side of LanacombeScheduled monument
- Lanacombe 5: a stone alignment on the south east side of LanacombeScheduled monument
- Chains Valley stone alignment 400m north west of Exe HeadScheduled monument
- Long Chains Combe South: two standing stones 380m south west of the sheepfoldScheduled monument
- Long Chains Combe North: a stone setting 120m WNW of the sheepfoldScheduled monument
- Halscombe stone setting 790m SSW of Simonsbath BridgeScheduled monument
- Swap Hill stone setting, 275m south east of the Long Combe sheep penScheduled monument
- Beckham stone alignment and mound, 450m south east of the Long Combe sheep penScheduled monument
- Kittuck stone setting and cairn, 200m south west of Three Combes FootScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Wheal Eliza MineWikidata place
- River ExeWikidata place
- Exmoor National ParkWikidata place
- Barle ValleyWikidata place
- North Exmoor SSSIWikidata place
- River BarleWikidata place
- ChainsWikidata place
- PROSPECTING PITAerial survey feature
- PROSPECTING PITAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- PROSPECTING PIT\SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUND\SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- EXTRACTIVE PIT\PROSPECTING PITAerial survey feature
- LEAT\WATER CHANNELAerial survey feature
- D SHAPED ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARY\FIELD SYSTEM\HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\LEATAerial survey feature
- PACK HORSE ROAD\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- LEATAerial survey feature
- BARROW\CAIRNAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cow Castle2.4 km south-east
- Landacre Bridge4.9 km south-east
- Alderman's Barrow at N of Almsworthy Common7.0 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Molland
- Twitchen
- North Molton
- Withypool and Hawkridge
- Brayford
- Exford
- Challacombe
- Luccombe
- Porlock
- Oare
- Lynton and Lynmouth
- Brendon and Countisbury
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.