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LiDAR map of Downton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Downton, a parish in Wiltshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 30 recorded places here: 14 listed buildings, 8 scheduled monuments, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 ancient places (Pleiades), 1 aerial survey feature. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 37 m and 105 m above sea level; its highest point is about 158 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns, 2 long barrows or chambered tombs, 1 Roman site and 1 cross.
Downton 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 Downton, 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 Downton. 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 Downton. 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 1 aerial survey feature in the area. More about this map
See Downton 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 (1 feature in the parish) and the 30 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
- 29.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 30
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 37–105 m above sea level; highest 158 m
- ONS code
- E04011700
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Clearbury RingScheduled monument
- The Moot: a ringwork and bailey, earlier Roman settlement remains and later garden earthworks immediately east of the River AvonScheduled monument
- Village crossScheduled monument
- Clearbury Down round barrowScheduled monument
- Long barrow 600yds (550m) SE of VanityScheduled monument
- Wick Down round barrowScheduled monument
- The Giant's Grave long barrowScheduled monument
- The Giant's Chair bell barrowScheduled monument
- DowntonAncient place (Pleiades)
- Clearbury RingAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Laurence
- Manor House
- Trafalgar House
- The Moot
- Church of Charlton All Saints
- Newcourt and Newcourt Farmhouse
- Standlynch Chapel
- East Mill
- The Bull Hotel
- Standlynch Mill
- Waterside Mill
- County Bridge
- Section Post
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Clearbury DownWikidata place
- The Trafalgar School at DowntonWikidata place
- Downton railway stationWikidata place
- Charlton-All-SaintsWikidata place
- WitheringtonWikidata place
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Clearbury Ring2.1 km north-west
- Whitsbury Castle5.2 km south-west
- Poultry Cross7.4 km north
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.