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LiDAR map of Ferndown Town
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ferndown Town, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 49 recorded places here: 25 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 scheduled monuments, 8 listed buildings, 7 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 13 m and 30 m above sea level; its highest point is about 41 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 9 barrows or cairns.
Ferndown Town 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 Ferndown Town, 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 Ferndown Town. 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 Ferndown Town. 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 25 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Ferndown Town 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 (25 features in the parish) and the 49 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
- 18.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 49
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 13–30 m above sea level; highest 41 m
- ONS code
- E04012463
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow 25m north west of Stapehill Village HallScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 380m west of Holy Cross AbbeyScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 250m west of Ferndown Upper SchoolScheduled monument
- Bell barrow known as Belle Vue Barrow, and a bowl barrow 250m north east of HillamslandScheduled monument
- Bell barrow 500m north east of Beacon FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 600m north east of Beacon FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 750m south west of Palmers Ford FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 270m south east of Holy Cross AbbeyScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Poor Common 370m north east of HolmwoodScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Longham United Reform Church
- Church of All Saints
- Little Moors Farmhouse
- Holy Cross Abbey
- Post Office
- Fox and Hounds Public House
- White Hart Inn
- Longham Bridge
Other recorded places
- St Mary's ChurchWikidata place
- Ferndown CommonWikidata place
- Parley CommonWikidata place
- Trickett's CrossWikidata place
- AmeysfordWikidata place
- HamprestonWikidata place
- Barrington TheatreWikidata place
- NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW\RIDGE AND FURROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\NATURAL FEATUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Dudsbury Camp2.2 km south
- Badbury Rings10.9 km west
- Castle Hill13.5 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.