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LiDAR map of Wellow
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wellow, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 19 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 55 m and 147 m above sea level; its highest point is about 169 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 long barrow or chambered tomb and 1 Roman site.
Wellow 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 Wellow, 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 Wellow. 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 Wellow. 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 Wellow 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 24 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
- 14.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 55–147 m above sea level; highest 169 m
- ONS code
- E04000996
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Stoney Littleton long barrowScheduled monument
- Roman villa at Upper HayesScheduled monument
- WellowAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of St Julian
- Wellow Farmhouse
- Wellow Farmhouse
- Dovecote, 100 Yards to Rear of Manor House
- Manor House
- Wellow House
- Wellow Primary School and Wellow School House
- Group of 2 Chest Tombs. 5 Yards From South East
- Chest Tomb, 1 Yard From Rood Stair Turret
- Chest Tomb, 3 Yards
- Chest Tomb, in South East Corner of Churchyard
- The Maltings
- Fox and Badger Public House
- Group of 4 Chest Tombs by South West Corner
- Chest Tomb, 15 Yards
- North entrance to Wellow Tunnel, 100 yards
- Wellow Bridge
- South West Entrance to Wellow Tunnel, 20 Yards
- Wellow Signal Box
Other recorded places
- Cam BrookWikidata place
- Wellow BrookWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Stoney Littleton Long Barrow850 m south
- Hinton Priory4.6 km east
- Tunley Camp5.1 km west
Neighbouring parishes
- Hemington
- Norton St Philip
- Hinton Charterhouse
- Shoscombe
- Peasedown St. John
- Dunkerton and Tunley
- Combe Hay
- Southstoke
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.