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LiDAR map of Montacute
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Montacute, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 42 recorded places here: 37 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 42 m and 124 m above sea level; its highest point is about 143 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 motte or ringwork and 1 monastic site.
Montacute 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 Montacute, 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 Montacute. 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 Montacute. 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 Montacute 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 42 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
- 5.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 42
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 42–124 m above sea level; highest 143 m
- ONS code
- E04008733
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ham HillAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Montacute Castle: a motte and bailey castle on St Michael's Hill.Scheduled monument
- Site of a Cluniac priory immediately east of Abbey FarmScheduled monument
- Hamdon Hill campScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Montacute House
- Church of St Catherine
- Walls, turrets and gateway to east forecourt
- North-east and south-east pavilions to east
- The Lodge
- The Kings Arms Inn
- Coffin Lid in Churchyard, Against North Face
- Unidentified Monument in Churchyard
- Unidentified Monument in Churchyard
- Richmond Chubb Monument in Churchyard
- Unidentified Monument in Churchyard
- Baker Monument in Churchyard
- Unidentified Monument in Churchyard
- Didd Monument in Churchyard
- Wilton Monument in Churchyard
- Unidentified Monument in Churchyard
- Montacute Church of England Voluntary Control
- Abbey Gate
- Phelips Arms Hotel
- The north terrace, retaining wall and central
- Three flights of stairs into sunken garden
- Post Office and Telephone Call Box
- Walls enclosing south car park
- Stone Coffin in Churchyard, Against
- Unidentified Monument in Churchyard
- Unidentified Monument in Churchyard
- Trask Monument in Churchyard
- Trent Monument in Churchyard
- Unidentified Monument in Churchyard
- Hodder Monument in Churchyard
and 7 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- MontacuteWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Montacute Castle510 m south-west
- Montacute Priory580 m south
- Ham Hill1.6 km south-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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.