LiDAR map of Shere
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Shere, a parish in Surrey, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 40 recorded places here: 29 listed buildings, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 94 m and 199 m above sea level; its highest point is about 260 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn.
Shere 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 Shere, 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 Shere. 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 Shere. 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 Shere 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 40 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
- Surrey, England
- Area
- 24.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 40
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 94–199 m above sea level; highest 260 m
- ONS code
- E04009557
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Holmbury CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- FeldayAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Bowl barrow on Shere HeathScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- The Church of St James
- Holmdale
- Fulvens House
- Old Hatch Farm House
- Usherwood
- La Chaumiere Restaurant
- Rookery Nook Shere Pottery Shop
- Woodhouse Copse
- Peaslake War Memorial
- Packhorse Bridge to Rear of Gomshall Tanneries
- Lychgate to Church of St James
- Church of St Mark
- The Old Fire Station
- George and Olwen's Country Store
- Chest Tomb to William Were ? 1 1/2 Yards North
- Gomshall Mill and Vera Lloyds Antiques
- The Old Forge
- Tor Ridge
- The Old Prison
- Post Office and Mumfords
- Chest Tomb 1 Yard
- Duncombe Vault 1 1/2 Feet
- The Forge
- The White Horse Public House
- Shere War Memorial
- Bridge Over the Tillingbourne
- Building
- The Village Pound
Other recorded places
- Piney CopseWikidata place
- Colekitchen DownWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Guildford Castle9.4 km west
- Medieval undercroft at 72/74 High Street9.5 km west
- Betchworth Castle10.7 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.