LiDAR map of Hurn
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Hurn, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 118 recorded places here: 100 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 scheduled monuments, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 5 m and 16 m above sea level; its highest point is about 55 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 8 barrows or cairns.
Hurn 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 Hurn, 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 Hurn. 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 Hurn. 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 100 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Hurn 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 (100 features in the parish) and the 118 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
- 22.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 118
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–16 m above sea level; highest 55 m
- ONS code
- E04012816
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round barrow cemetery and earthwork enclosures in Quomp Copse 540m east of Park CottagesScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 320m north of Brickfield CottageScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Ramsdown Plantation, 120m north west of Brickfield CottageScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Avon Common, 115m south east of The MountScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows on Sopley Common, 680m and 640m north west of Brickfield CottageScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows at Gibbet Firs, 950m south west and 1080m south west of Palmers Ford WorksScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on East Parley Common 610m south west of Fir Grove FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow in Hurn Forest, 680m south west of Bostwick FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- RAF HurnWikidata place
- Adventure WonderlandWikidata place
- Moors RiverWikidata place
- Bournemouth Aviation MuseumWikidata place
- Bournemouth AirportWikidata place
- Hurn railway stationWikidata place
- HurnWikidata place
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- DROVEWAY\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- BEE GARDEN\ENCLOSURE\MILITARY EARTHWORKAerial survey feature
- BEE GARDEN\ENCLOSURE\MILITARY EARTHWORKAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Dudsbury Camp4.6 km west
- Castle Hill10.0 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Throop and Holdenhurst
- West Parley
- Ferndown Town
- St. Leonards and St. Ives
- Christchurch
- Sopley
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.