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LiDAR map of Ilchester
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ilchester, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 20 recorded places here: 11 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 ancient places (Pleiades), 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 11 m and 18 m above sea level; its highest point is about 25 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 Roman sites.
Ilchester 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 Ilchester, 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 Ilchester. 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 Ilchester. 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 Ilchester 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 20 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
- 6.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 20
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 11–18 m above sea level; highest 25 m
- ONS code
- E04008710
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ilchester Roman townScheduled monument
- Ilchester MeadAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Northover House, late Roman cemeteryScheduled monument
- LindinisAncient place (Pleiades)
- River Yeo (South Somerset)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Andrew
- The Town Hall
- Ilchester Bridge
- Former Wesleyan Chapel
- Fowler Monument in Churchyard
- London House
- Mill House
- Northover Manor Hotel with Front Boundary Railings
- Northover House
- Market Cross
- Milestone Against South West Corner of the Town
Other recorded places
- Ilchester FriaryWikidata place
- Ilchester NunneryWikidata place
- Sock DennisWikidata place
- Ilchester (near)Roman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Pill Bridge1.7 km north-west
- Montacute Castle6.0 km south
- Montacute Priory6.0 km south
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.