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LiDAR map of Whitchurch
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Whitchurch, a parish in Devon, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 25 recorded places here: 10 scheduled monuments, 5 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 110 m and 325 m above sea level; its highest point is about 450 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 3 crosses, 2 churches or chapels and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Whitchurch 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 Whitchurch, 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 Whitchurch. 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 Whitchurch. 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 5 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Whitchurch 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 (5 features in the parish) and the 25 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
- 22.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 25
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 110–325 m above sea level; highest 450 m
- ONS code
- E04003358
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Green Lane Cross: a wayside cross at the north west end of Whitchurch DownScheduled monument
- Pixies' Cross: a wayside cross and associated earthwork enclosure on Whitchurch DownScheduled monument
- Windy Post: a wayside cross on open moorland 1.8km north of Sampford Spiney villageScheduled monument
- Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor, forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch CommonScheduled monument
- Round cairn 560m south east of Little Staple TorScheduled monument
- Enclosure and stone hut circle 770m south of Cox TorScheduled monument
- Cairn and cist on Barn Hill, 840m north east of Moortown FarmScheduled monument
- Ring cairn 920m south west of Little Staple TorScheduled monument
- Cairn and cist 150m north of Vixen TorScheduled monument
- Eluvial tin streamworks and prehistoric coaxial field system together with other archaeological remains on Whitchurch CommonScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Grenofen Wood and West DownWikidata place
- Vixen TorWikidata place
- River WalkhamWikidata place
- MerrivaleWikidata place
- GrenofenWikidata place
- EXTRACTIVE PIT\MINEAerial survey feature
- COPPER MINE\SPOIL HEAPAerial survey feature
- SPOIL HEAP\TIN MINEAerial survey feature
- SPOIL HEAP\STREAMWORKSAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Tavistock Abbey3.1 km north-west
- Buckland Abbey6.4 km south
- Brisworthy stone circle9.2 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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.