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LiDAR map of Selwood
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Selwood, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 28 recorded places here: 20 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 74 m and 111 m above sea level; its highest point is about 175 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 hillfort, 1 motte or ringwork, 1 Roman site and 1 bridge.
Selwood 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 Selwood, 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 Selwood. 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 Selwood. 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 Selwood 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 28 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
- 26.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 28
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 74–111 m above sea level; highest 175 m
- ONS code
- E04008583
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hillfort on Roddenbury HillScheduled monument
- Hales Castle: a ringwork and associated earthworks on Coles HillScheduled monument
- Roman villa complex, 330m south-west of St Algar's FarmScheduled monument
- Deserted medieval site SW of Tytherington BridgeScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St Katherine
- Vallis Manor House
- Rodden Manor
- St Algars Farmhouse
- Manor Farmhouse
- The Cross Keys Inn
- Murtry Aqueduct
- Lamp
- Schoolroom
- Monument to William Pollett in the Churchyard
- Marston Mill and Mill House
- Milestone at Ngr
- Milestone at Ngr
- Bridge and Walling of Bank of Former Canal
- Milestone at Ngr
- Bridge Over Stream at Ngr
- Milestone at Ngr
- Streetlamp
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Frome HoardWikidata place
- Longleat WoodsWikidata place
- Mells RiverWikidata place
- SelwoodWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Hales Castle2.0 km south-east
- Roddenbury Hillfort2.3 km south-east
- Marston Moat2.7 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Maiden Bradley with Yarnfield
- Horningsham
- Corsley
- Frome
- Chapmanslade
- Berkley
- Nunney
- Whatley
- Great Elm
- Buckland Dinham
- Trudoxhill
- Lullington
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.