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LiDAR map of Shipham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Shipham, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 43 recorded places here: 26 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 listed buildings, 7 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 89 m and 233 m above sea level; its highest point is about 294 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 enclosure or other earthwork, 1 henge or standing stone, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 settlement.
Shipham 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 Shipham, 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 Shipham. 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 Shipham. 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 26 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Shipham 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 (26 features in the parish) and the 43 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
- 7.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 43
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 89–233 m above sea level; highest 294 m
- ONS code
- E04008644
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Longbottom Farm earthworkScheduled monument
- Wimblestone standing stoneScheduled monument
- Round barrows 600yds (550m) NW of Longbottom FarmScheduled monument
- Rowberrow Camp: an Iron Age defended settlement north west of Tynings FarmScheduled monument
- Star Roman villa, 275m north east of WimblestoneScheduled monument
- Calamine mining remains, south of Glovers FieldScheduled monument
- Rowberrow Cavern, Mendip ForestScheduled monument
- Rowberrow CampAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Rowberrow War Memorial
- Shipham War Memorial
- Church of St Leonard
- Calamine Processor at Ngr
- Chest Tomb to Amelia Day in Churchyard
- Milestone at Ngr
Other recorded places
- ShiphamWikidata place
- RowberrowWikidata place
- VILLAAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ZINC MINEAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- CLEARANCE CAIRNAerial survey feature
- CLEARANCE CAIRNAerial survey feature
- FARMSTEADAerial survey feature
- HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- STOCK ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- LEAD MINEAerial survey feature
- CALAMINE MINEAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- CALAMINE MINEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- FARMSTEADAerial survey feature
- FARMAerial survey feature
- SHIELINGAerial survey feature
- SHIELINGAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Dolebury Warren1.5 km north
- Burrington Camp2.8 km north-east
- Gough's Cave3.9 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.