LiDAR map of Cornwood
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cornwood, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 135 recorded places here: 56 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 53 scheduled monuments, 22 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 110 m and 432 m above sea level; its highest point is about 493 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 18 enclosures and other earthworks, 15 barrows or cairns, 10 settlements and 2 field systems.
Cornwood 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 Cornwood, 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 Cornwood. 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 Cornwood. 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 56 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cornwood 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 (56 features in the parish) and the 135 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
- 41.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 135
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 110–432 m above sea level; highest 493 m
- ONS code
- E04003140
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cholwich Town Cross: a wayside cross between Quick Bridge and Tolchmoor GateScheduled monument
- Huts and fields on Penn Moor near Broadall LakeScheduled monument
- Hut circles and fields on Dendles WasteScheduled monument
- Round Barrow on Dendles Waste (Kerbed cairn with cist in Dendles Waste, 920m SSW of Yealm Steps)Scheduled monument
- Two round barrows on Ridding DownScheduled monument
- Enclosure and hut circles in Erme Valley on east side of Stall MoorScheduled monument
- Enclosure and hut circles on Erme PlainsScheduled monument
- Enclosure and stone hut circle 740m south east of Penn Beacon, forming part of a stone hut circle settlementScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle 460m south east of Penn BeaconScheduled monument
- Cist 430m ESE of Yealm StepsScheduled monument
- Cairn south-east of Shell TopScheduled monument
- Ring cairn on Shell TopScheduled monument
- One of several cairns on the south-west slope of Penn BeaconScheduled monument
- One of several cairns on the south-west slope of Penn BeaconScheduled monument
- The southern of three enclosures north of Ford WasteScheduled monument
- One of several stone hut circles near enclosures north of Ford WasteScheduled monument
- One of several stone hut circles near enclosures north of Ford WasteScheduled monument
- Enclosure on StalldownScheduled monument
- Cairn north-east of Harrowthorn PlantationScheduled monument
- Hillson's House cairn, StalldownScheduled monument
- Enclosure with hut circles north of Harrowthorn PlantationScheduled monument
- Agglomerated enclosure on the west side of the Erme Valley below StalldownScheduled monument
- Two hut circles on the south-east slope of StalldownScheduled monument
- Three unenclosed stone hut circles on the west side of the Erme Valley, north of Lower PilesScheduled monument
- The middle one of three enclosures north of Ford WasteScheduled monument
- Unenclosed stone hut settlement north-east of YadsworthyScheduled monument
- One of several stone hut circles near enclosures north of Ford WasteScheduled monument
- The northern of three enclosures north of Ford WasteScheduled monument
- One of several cairns on the south-west slope of Penn BeaconScheduled monument
- Part of Penn Moor contour reave incorporating two stone hut circles and an enclosed hut settlementScheduled monument
- Part of Penn Moor contour reaveScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle south of Penn Moor enclosed stone hut settlementScheduled monument
- One of several cairns on the south-west slope of Penn BeaconScheduled monument
- One of two cairns west of Penn BeaconScheduled monument
- One of several stone hut circles west of High-house WasteScheduled monument
- Enclosure and stone hut circles 600m ESE of Penn Beacon, forming part of a stone hut circle settlementScheduled monument
- Prehistoric stone hut circle settlement, a contemporary field system, post-medieval buildings and two lengths of leat 310m south east of Yealm StepsScheduled monument
- Five stone hut circles 500m south east of Yealm Steps forming part of a large stone hut circle settlementScheduled monument
- Five stone hut circles 320m east of Yealm Steps forming part of a large stone hut circle settlementScheduled monument
- Stone alignment and cairns on StalldownScheduled monument
- Enclosure with hut circles south-west of Penn BeaconScheduled monument
- Double stone alignment with a large cairn south-west of Penn BeaconScheduled monument
- Enclosure 560m south east of Penn Beacon, forming part of a stone hut circle settlementScheduled monument
- Enclosure east of an agglomerated enclosure south-east of Yealm StepsScheduled monument
- Cairn west of StalldownScheduled monument
- Cairn south of Stalldown stone alignmentScheduled monument
- Enclosure on the west side of the Erme valley below StalldownScheduled monument
- Enclosure west of Ford BrookScheduled monument
- Medieval hut NW of Dendles WoodScheduled monument
- Blowing house N of Yealm StepsScheduled monument
- Medieval settlement on Ford WasteScheduled monument
- Deserted post-medieval farmstead and part of the surrounding field system at High House WasteScheduled monument
- A deserted medieval settlement and post medieval farmstead 510m north east of East Rook GateScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Michael
- Fardel Manor House
- Chapel Immediately North
- Blachford
- The Slade
- Hanger Farm House
- Slade Bridge
- Saw Mill at Blachford Estate
- Chest Tomb in Churchyard Immediately South
- Chest Tomb to Thomas Vivian
- Mill House Wisdome Mill
- Cider House
- Chest Tomb in Churchyard
- Church House
- Mill Bridge
- Blachford Viaduct
- Langham Bridge
- Wisdome Bridge
- Outbuilding
- Moor Cross Bridge
- Piall Bridge
- Ivybridge Viaduct
Other recorded places
- Stalldown BarrowWikidata place
- Dendles WoodWikidata place
- CornwoodWikidata place
- YondertownWikidata place
- HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- DRAIN\PROSPECTING PIT\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- NATURAL FEATURE\QUARRYAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT\SUBRECTANGULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- ANTI TANK OBSTACLEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMP\NISSEN HUT\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM\SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- STREAMWORKSAerial survey feature
- STREAMWORKSAerial survey feature
- STREAMWORKSAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Brisworthy stone circle6.4 km north-west
- Boringdon Camp6.9 km west
- Eylesbarrow Mine7.1 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.