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LiDAR map of Alton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Alton, a parish in Wiltshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 72 recorded places here: 52 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 10 scheduled monuments, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 131 m and 254 m above sea level; its highest point is about 293 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns, 2 enclosures and other earthworks and 1 long barrow or chambered tomb.
Alton 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 Alton, 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 Alton. 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 Alton. 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 52 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Alton 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 (52 features in the parish) and the 72 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
- Wiltshire, England
- Area
- 10.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 72
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 131–254 m above sea level; highest 293 m
- ONS code
- E04011621
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Knap Hill camp near Alton PriorsScheduled monument
- Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's HillScheduled monument
- Earthwork W of New Town FarmScheduled monument
- Two round barrows W of New Town FarmScheduled monument
- Earth Burgh (or Eorth Burh) NW of New Town FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White HorseScheduled monument
- Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap CottageScheduled monument
- Bell barrow 75m west of Red ShoreScheduled monument
- Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap CottageScheduled monument
- Earthwork NW of New Town FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Battle of Woden's BurgWikidata place
- Battle of Woden's BurgWikidata place
- Alton Barnes White HorseWikidata place
- Pewsey DownsWikidata place
- Vale of PewseyWikidata place
- Alton BarnesWikidata place
- Alton PriorsWikidata place
- AltonWikidata place
- HILL FIGUREAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY\RIDGE AND FURROW\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENT\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Knap Hill450 m north-west
- Adam's Grave1.0 km west
- Swanborough Tump3.2 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.