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LiDAR map of Melbury Abbas
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Melbury Abbas, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 14 recorded places here: 6 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 103 m and 235 m above sea level; its highest point is about 262 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 cross.
Melbury 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 Melbury 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 Melbury 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 Melbury Abbas. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Melbury 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 and the 14 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
- 9.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 14
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 103–235 m above sea level; highest 262 m
- ONS code
- E04003427
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Melbury Beacon and circular enclosure on Melbury HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow north of Breeze Hill, 540m ESE of the top of Zig-Zag HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on the south west slope of Breeze Hill, Melbury DownScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Breeze Hill, 760m south east of the top of Zig-Zag HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 800m NNE of Gore Farm on Melbury DownScheduled monument
- Cross dyke and linear boundary on Melbury Hill and Compton DownScheduled monument
Listed buildings
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Melbury DownWikidata place
- Breeze HillWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Shaftesbury Abbey3.5 km north-west
- Castle Rings5.1 km north
- Iron Age6.8 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.