LiDAR map of Instow
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Instow, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 44 recorded places here: 20 listed buildings, 17 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 wreck. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 105 m above sea level; its highest point is about 122 m.
Instow 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 Instow, 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 Instow. 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 Instow. 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 17 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Instow 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 (17 features in the parish) and the 44 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
- 6.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 44
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–105 m above sea level; highest 122 m
- ONS code
- E04003096
Listed buildings
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Jewell Headstone Against West Wall of South
- Methodist Chapel
- Sunday School Room and Storage Shed
- Tucker Headstone Against East Wall of South
- Turell Headstone Against West Wall of South
- Pair of Gravestones at Head and Feet of Stanbury
- The Old Windmill
- Limekiln on Instow Beach
- Slocombe Headstone Against East Wall of South
- Pair of Gravestones at Head and Feet of Grave
- Unnamed Gravestone Against East Wall of South
- Muden Headstone Against East Wall of South
- Carder Headstone Against West Wall of South
- Unnamed Gravestone Against West Wall of South
- Sandlea the Anchorage Hotel
- Unnamed Gravestone Against West Wall of South
- Instow War Memorial
- Instow Signal Box
- Lychgate
Other recorded places
- Instow Front LighthouseWikidata place
- Instow Rear LighthouseWikidata place
- All Saints Chapel, InstowWikidata place
- Instow railway stationWikidata place
- WorlingtonWikidata place
- InstowWikidata place
- WATER TANKAerial survey feature
- MOORING BLOCKAerial survey feature
- WATER TANKAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- WATER TANKAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- GRANDSTANDAerial survey feature
- ANTI TANK BLOCKAerial survey feature
- BUILDING PLATFORMAerial survey feature
- WINDMILL MOUNDAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Yelland Stone Rows2.3 km north
- Knowle Hill Castle7.6 km north
- Barnstaple Castle7.7 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.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.