LiDAR map of Belstone
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Belstone, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 22 recorded places here: 12 listed buildings, 8 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 239 m and 400 m above sea level; its highest point is about 478 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns, 3 settlements, 1 industrial site and 1 church or chapel.
Belstone 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 Belstone, 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 Belstone. 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 Belstone. 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 Belstone 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 22 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
- 7.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 22
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 239–400 m above sea level; highest 478 m
- ONS code
- E04003305
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ring cairn 230m south east of Cullever StepsScheduled monument
- Nine Stones ring cairn on Belstone CommonScheduled monument
- A round cairn on Watchet HillScheduled monument
- An enclosed prehistoric settlement 230m east of Higher TorScheduled monument
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 320m south east of Higher TorScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle settlement at Higher TorScheduled monument
- Taw River tin blowing mill, 840m south of TawcroftScheduled monument
- Boundary stone 110m north west of St Mary's ChurchScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Langmead Headstone
- Drew Headstone
- Spring Head
- Coronation Stone
- Palthridge Headstone
- Paul Headstone
- Newcombe Headstone
- Lee Headstone
- Village Stocks
and 2 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- BelstoneWikidata place
- SticklepathWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Okehampton Castle3.8 km west
- Meldon Viaduct5.7 km west
- Gidleigh Castle7.1 km south-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.