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LiDAR map of Church Knowle
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Church Knowle, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 62 recorded places here: 33 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 16 scheduled monuments, 8 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 36 m and 149 m above sea level; its highest point is about 203 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 10 barrows or cairns, 2 crosses, 1 field system and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Church Knowle 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 Church Knowle, 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 Church Knowle. 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 Church Knowle. 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 33 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Church Knowle 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 (33 features in the parish) and the 62 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
- 11.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 62
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 36–149 m above sea level; highest 203 m
- ONS code
- E04003469
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Iron Age settlement and associated field system on Smedmore HillScheduled monument
- Oval barrow at the western end of Stonehill Down, 800m south west of East Creech FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow at the eastern end of Stonehill Down, 270m SSW of East Creech FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Stonehill Down, 250m south of East Creech FarmScheduled monument
- The Icen Barrow on Creech Heath, forming part of the Creech Heath round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Creech Heath 720m ESE of Dodson's Farm, forming part of the Creech Heath round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Group of three bowl barrows on Creech Heath 650m ESE of Dodson's Farm, forming part of the Creech Heath round barrow cemeteryScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Stoborough Heath 80m north west of Hill ViewScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Knowle Hill, 630m north east of St Peter's ChurchScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Knowle Hill, 660m north east of St Peter's ChurchScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow and cross dyke on Knowle Hill, 500m NNE of St Peter's ChurchScheduled monument
- Hilltop enclosure and a pillow mound on Knowle HillScheduled monument
- Cross dyke on Knowle Hill, 470m SSE of East Creech FarmScheduled monument
- Cross dyke on Knowle Hill, 430m south of East Creech FarmScheduled monument
- Group of six pillow mounds 470m north west of Barnston FarmScheduled monument
- Romano-British villa 560m north east of East Creech FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Barnston Manor
- Parish Church of Saint Peter
- The Lower Barracks
- The Post Office
- Disused Lime Kiln Knowle Hill
- The Reading Room
- Unidentified Table Tomb in Churchyard
- The New Inn
Other recorded places
- Creech Barrow HillWikidata place
- Stonehill Down Nature ReserveWikidata place
- Blue PoolWikidata place
- East CreechWikidata place
- FurzebrookWikidata place
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- RAILWAYAerial survey feature
- RAILWAYAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- HUNTING LODGEAerial survey feature
- BRICKWORKSAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Iron Age settlement1.6 km south
- Corfe Castle2.6 km east
- Rempstone Stone Circle6.1 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.