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LiDAR map of Cerne Abbas
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cerne Abbas, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 84 recorded places here: 45 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 27 listed buildings, 11 scheduled monuments, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 121 m and 232 m above sea level; its highest point is about 251 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 2 settlements, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 monastic site.
Cerne Abbas 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 Cerne Abbas, 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 Cerne Abbas. 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 Cerne Abbas. 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 45 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Cerne Abbas 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 (45 features in the parish) and the 84 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
- 12.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 84
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 121–232 m above sea level; highest 251 m
- ONS code
- E04003518
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hill figure called The GiantScheduled monument
- Earthworks on Giant HillScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Black HillScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Dickley HillScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows on Green Hill 450m north of Pound FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Green Hill 400m north of Pound FarmScheduled monument
- Cerne Abbey, site of, including gatehouse, guesthouse and wine house (barn)Scheduled monument
- Cerne Park boundary bankScheduled monument
- Settlement and field system on Black HillScheduled monument
- Settlement on Smacam DownScheduled monument
- Settlement on Dickley HillScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Cerne Abbey
- Churchyard Cross
- The Abbot's Porch
- The Tithe Barn
- Abbey Cottage the Pitchmarket
- Guest House of Cerne Abbey
- Parish Church of St Mary
- The New Inn
- The Old Farmhouse
- The Old House
- North Barn
- The Old Saddler
- The Royal Oak Inn
- Cerne Abbas Stores
- The Giant Inn
- The Singing Kettle
- The Bairstow Gallery
- The Old Market House Restaurant
- The Old Bell
- Cerne Antiques
- War Memorial
- Kettle Bridge
- Milestone at Ngr 676027
- Maltsters
- Milestone
and 2 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Cerne AbbasWikidata place
- FIELD SYSTEM/LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM/LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM/LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- STRIP FIELD/STRIP LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE/RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RIDGE AND FURROW/STRIP FIELDAerial survey feature
- RIDGE AND FURROW/STRIP FIELDAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- RIDGE AND FURROW/STRIP FIELDAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM/SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY/STRIP FIELDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Cerne Abbey730 m north-east
- Cerne Abbas Giant890 m north-east
- Martin Down enclosure 300m north of Huish Barn3.2 km south-west
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.