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LiDAR map of Tilshead
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Tilshead, a parish in Wiltshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 20 recorded places here: 8 scheduled monuments, 7 listed buildings, 3 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 108 m and 146 m above sea level; its highest point is about 169 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 long barrows or chambered tombs, 2 enclosures and other earthworks, 1 Roman site and 1 barrow or cairn.
Tilshead 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 Tilshead, 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 Tilshead. 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 Tilshead. 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 3 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Tilshead 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 (3 features in the parish) and the 20 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
- 15.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 20
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 108–146 m above sea level; highest 169 m
- ONS code
- E04011838
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- White Barrow, a long barrowScheduled monument
- Linear earthwork on West DownScheduled monument
- Long barrow and Old Ditch linear earthwork, on Tilshead DownScheduled monument
- Chapperton Down Prehistoric and Romano-British LandscapeScheduled monument
- Long barrow south of Horse DownScheduled monument
- Long barrow in Barrow Plantation, East DownScheduled monument
- Boundary earthwork from East Down to Orcheston DownScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Tilshead Down, 950m north west of Copehill PlantationScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Thomas a Becket
- Church House
- Unidentified Monument, in the Churchyard
- Cooper Monument in the Churchyard
- Bartley Monument in the Churchyard
- Rose and Crown Inn
- Tilshead War Memorial
Other recorded places
- RAF TilsheadWikidata place
- TilsheadWikidata place
- BUTTS\MOUND\PITAerial survey feature
- WEAPONS PITAerial survey feature
- LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- White Barrow1.3 km south-east
- Yarnbury Castle7.5 km south
- Robin Hood's Ball8.0 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.