LiDAR map of Rode
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rode, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 32 recorded places here: 31 listed buildings, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 52 m and 72 m above sea level; its highest point is about 80 m.
Rode 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 Rode, 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 Rode. 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 Rode. 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 Rode 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 32 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
- 4.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 32
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 52–72 m above sea level; highest 80 m
- ONS code
- E04008580
Listed buildings
- Christ Church
- Church of St Lawrence
- Rode Mill House
- Southfield House
- Langham House
- Merfield House
- Gazebo
- Unknown Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- War Memorial
- Milestone
- Assembly Rooms
- Dreweit Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- Unknown Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- Two Identical Chest Tombs to Edwards Family
- Unknown Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- The Red Lion Inn
- Unknown Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- Post Office
- The Cross Keys
- Shawford Mill
- County Boundary Marker
- Rode Primary School
- Unknown Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- Pike Family Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- Unknown Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- Unknown Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- The Bell Inn
- Pickard Chest Tomb, in Churchyard
- Scutt's Bridge Over River Frome at Ngr
- Shawford Bridge Over River Frome
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- RodeWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Farleigh Hungerford Castle3.8 km north
- Hinton Priory6.2 km north-west
- Stoney Littleton Long Barrow8.4 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.