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LiDAR map of Payhembury
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Payhembury, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 20 recorded places here: 12 listed buildings, 6 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 1 scheduled monument, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 69 m and 164 m above sea level; its highest point is about 270 m.
Payhembury 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 Payhembury, 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 Payhembury. 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 Payhembury. 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 6 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Payhembury 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 (6 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
- Devon, England
- Area
- 12.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 20
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 69–164 m above sea level; highest 270 m
- ONS code
- E04002981
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hembury FortScheduled monument
- HemburyAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Lower House
- Leyhill
- Higher Tale War Memorial
- Payhembury School
- Tuck Mill
- Anonymous Chest Tomb
- Venn Chest Tomb
- Skinner Chest Tomb
- Churchyard South Gate
- Payhembury War Memorial
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- HENGEAerial survey feature
- OVAL ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- HOMESTEADAerial survey feature
- MINEAerial survey feature
- HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- MINEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Hembury3.2 km north-east
- Belbury Castle7.9 km south
- Dumpdon Hill9.5 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.