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LiDAR map of Axminster
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Axminster, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 100 recorded places here: 61 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 32 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 29 m and 161 m above sea level; its highest point is about 224 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site and 1 monastic site.
Axminster 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 Axminster, 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 Axminster. 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 Axminster. 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 61 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Axminster 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 (61 features in the parish) and the 100 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
- Devon, England
- Area
- 26.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 100
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 29–161 m above sea level; highest 224 m
- ONS code
- E04002937
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Roman fort and later Romano-British settlement at Woodbury FarmScheduled monument
- Trinity BeaconScheduled monument
- Newenham AbbeyScheduled monument
- MoridunumAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Weycroft Hall
- Church of St Mary
- Weycroft Manor and Weycroft Well House
- Tower House
- Premises of G C Bateman
- Oak House
- Castle Mount
- War Memorial in Churchyard
- Premises of M W Pike and Co, J o Llewelyn Ltd
- Archway Bookshop
- The Old Court House
- United Reformed Church
- Jubilee Fountain
- Premises of E Cubley and New Commercial Hotel
- Cavalier Public House
- Axminster Saleroom
- The Old Registry Office
- Premises of Axe Vale Social Club
- Rest Harrow
- Premises of Regward and Co Ltd
- Regent Furniture Showrooms
- Premises of W G Potter and Son
- George Hotel
- Reynards and Black Dog Cafe
- Conservative Club and Thomas Whitty House
- Premises and R a and C Snell Estate Agents
- Premises of Nss Newsagent
- Premises of International Stores and King's Bakery
- Premises of Gribble Booth and Taylor, and Lynton
- Premises of Surridge Dawson and Co Ltd
and 2 more on the map.
Nearest places with their own page
- Newenham Abbey2.2 km south-west
- Membury Castle5.0 km north-west
- Musbury Castle5.0 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Musbury
- Uplyme
- Wootton Fitzpaine
- Shute
- Lands Common to Axminster and Kilmington C.P.s
- Kilmington
- Dalwood
- Hawkchurch
- All Saints
- Membury
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.