LiDAR map of Arne
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Arne, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 91 recorded places here: 62 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 14 scheduled monuments, 10 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 1 m and 27 m above sea level; its highest point is about 52 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 12 barrows or cairns, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 military site.
Arne 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 Arne, 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 Arne. 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 Arne. 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 62 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Arne 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 (62 features in the parish) and the 91 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
- Dorset, England
- Area
- 24.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 91
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 1–27 m above sea level; highest 52 m
- ONS code
- E04012321
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- 'Three Barrows': Group of three round barrows on the southern edge of Middlebere Heath, 240m NNE of Halfway InnScheduled monument
- Bell barrow on Stoborough Heath 380m NNE of Hill ViewScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 500m west of Worgret Manor Farm, forming an outlier of the Worgret Heath round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Stoborough Heath 700m south of Icen HouseScheduled monument
- The King's Barrow 230m east of Bartlett's FirsScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Bartlett's FirsScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Arne Hill 270m south west of Arne Dairy HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Stoborough Heath 240m NNE of Hill ViewScheduled monument
- Three Lords' Barrow, 450m south east of Doreys FarmScheduled monument
- Group of linear earthworks on Worgret HeathScheduled monument
- Bell barrow and seven bowl barrows, forming a dispersed round barrow cemetery on Worgret Heath, 645m north west of Worgret Manor FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Worgret Heath, 320m north west of High TorScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Worgret Heath, 390m west of Little FarmScheduled monument
- Heavy Anti-aircraft battery on Arne HillScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Worgret Manor Hotel
- Pump House at Junction with West Lane
- The King's Arms
- The Former Post Office
- Isolation Hospital
- The Halfway Inn
- Ridge Locomotive Shed
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Hartland MoorWikidata place
- Arne RSPB reserveWikidata place
- Worgret HeathWikidata place
- Stoborough GreenWikidata place
- RidgeWikidata place
- OBSERVATION POST\ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS SITEAerial survey feature
- WAREHOUSEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE SYSTEM\MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
- WRECKAerial survey feature
- MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- GUN EMPLACEMENTAerial survey feature
- BOMBING DECOYAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- SALTERNAerial survey feature
- LANDING STAGEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- St Martin's Church, Wareham2.4 km north-west
- Corfe Castle4.6 km south
- Rempstone Stone Circle6.8 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.