LiDAR map of Hilton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Hilton, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 19 recorded places here: 7 listed buildings, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 aerial survey feature. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 117 m and 217 m above sea level; its highest point is about 274 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns and 1 field system.
Hilton 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 Hilton, 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 Hilton. 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 Hilton. 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 1 aerial survey feature in the area. More about this map
See Hilton 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 (1 feature in the parish) and the 19 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
- 12.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 19
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 117–217 m above sea level; highest 274 m
- ONS code
- E04003414
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Rowlsbury CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Cultivation remains on Thomas's Hill and E of HiltonScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 400m south east of Melcombe Newton HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 230m south of Bulbarrow FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of All Saints
- The Village Hall
- Thomas Monument in the Churchyard
- Former Brewery Building
- The old Post office and Honeysuckle Cottage
- Syndercombe ? Monument in the Churchyard, 1 1/
- Former Brewery Building
Other recorded places
- Bulbarrow HillWikidata place
- Little AnstyWikidata place
- Higher AnstyWikidata place
- Melcombe BinghamWikidata place
- Ansty CrossWikidata place
- DorsetWikidata place
- AnstyWikidata place
- PARK PALE\DEER PARKAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Ringmoor6.3 km north-east
- Hillfort on Banbury Hill8.6 km north
- Hillfort and later strip lynchets on Dungeon Hill8.9 km north-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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.