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LiDAR map of Winsford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Winsford, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 57 recorded places here: 41 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 scheduled monuments, 4 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 235 m and 374 m above sea level; its highest point is about 428 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 1 cross, 1 castle and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Winsford 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 Winsford, 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 Winsford. 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 Winsford. 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 41 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Winsford 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 (41 features in the parish) and the 57 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
- 30.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 57
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 235–374 m above sea level; highest 428 m
- ONS code
- E04008865
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Caratacus Stone: an inscribed stone 140m east of Spire CrossScheduled monument
- Road CastleScheduled monument
- Round barrow 720m NNW of Spire CrossScheduled monument
- Four round barrows on The Allotment, 520m south east of Spire CrossScheduled monument
- Round barrow cemetery incorporating Wambarrows on Winsford HillScheduled monument
- Earthwork enclosure on Winsford Hill, 200m south east of WambarrowsScheduled monument
- Enclosure and associated outworks on Staddon HillScheduled monument
- Packhorse bridge 60m north east of Royal Oak FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Packhorse Bridge Over River Exe at Ngr
- Packhorse Bridge at Ngr
- Edbrooke Bridge at Ngr
Other recorded places
- Garratts WoodWikidata place
- South Exmoor SSSIWikidata place
- ExmoorWikidata place
- WinsfordWikidata place
- FARMSTEAD\FIELD BOUNDARY\PADDOCK\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD SYSTEM\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- PROSPECTING PIT\QUARRYAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\RECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE\POST MILLAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE\HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMP\MILITARY TRAINING SITE\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITE\WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- BOMB CRATER\FIRING RANGEAerial survey feature
- WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- PACKHORSE ROAD\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- BOMB CRATER\MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM\STRIP FIELDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Caratacus Stone1.5 km south
- Road Castle3.5 km north-west
- Tarr Steps3.6 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.