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LiDAR map of Yeovilton and District
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Yeovilton and District, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 21 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 14 m and 26 m above sea level; its highest point is about 46 m.
Yeovilton and District 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 Yeovilton and District, 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 Yeovilton and District. 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 Yeovilton and District. 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 Yeovilton and District 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 26 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
- 18.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 14–26 m above sea level; highest 46 m
- ONS code
- E04013157
Listed buildings
- Church of Saint Peter
- Church of Saint Bartholomew
- Church of Saint Mary
- Swadel Chest Tomb
- Roadside Stone at Ngr
- Unidentified Chest Tomb 1.
- Unidentified Chest Tomb
- Lye Chest Tomb
- The Alary Chest Tomb
- Unidentified Chest Tomb 1.
- The Cox Chest Tomb
- The Swayne Altar Tomb, 1.
- Shephard Chest Tomb
- Chest Tomb
- Unidentified Chest Tomb
- Unidentified Chest Tomb
- Unidentified Chest Tomb, 1.
- Cross Base and War Memorial
- Chest Tomb
- Chest Tomb
- Limington War Memorial
Other recorded places
- Royal Naval Air Station YeoviltonWikidata place
- Fleet Air Arm MuseumWikidata place
- River CamWikidata place
- YeoviltonWikidata place
- LimingtonWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Wimble Toot4.8 km north
- Pill Bridge5.1 km west
- Cadbury Castle7.9 km east
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.