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LiDAR map of Portesham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Portesham, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 87 recorded places here: 56 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 16 listed buildings, 11 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 37 m and 181 m above sea level; its highest point is about 241 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 8 barrows or cairns, 1 henge or standing stone and 1 long barrow or chambered tomb.
Portesham 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 Portesham, 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 Portesham. 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 Portesham. 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 56 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Portesham 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 (56 features in the parish) and the 87 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
- 18.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 87
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 37–181 m above sea level; highest 241 m
- ONS code
- E04003582
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Hampton stone circleScheduled monument
- Helstone burial chamberScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows on Black Down immediately east of the Hardy MonumentScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Black Down, 50m south of the Hardy MonumentScheduled monument
- Round barrow NE of Friar WaddonScheduled monument
- Round barrow E of The BuildingsScheduled monument
- Friar Waddon Hill round barrowsScheduled monument
- Two round barrows on RidgewayScheduled monument
- Long barrow W of Hampton BarnScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 720m south east of Friar Waddon HouseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Black Down, 80m south east of the Hardy MonumentScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Chapel of St Bartholomew
- Cart Shed and Stables
- Manor House and Stables
- Monument Unidentified
- Russell Monument
- Thornhyll Monument
- Samson Monument
- Two Unidentified Monuments 18
- Monument Unidentified
- Three Unidentified Monuments 4
- Dowand Monument
- Hawkins Monument
- Monument Unidentified
- Portesham War Memorial
- Workshop
Other recorded places
- Coryates Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Portesham railway stationWikidata place
- CoryatesWikidata place
- PorteshamWikidata place
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- FIELD SYSTEM\LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- CHAMBERED TOMBAerial survey feature
- CHAMBERED LONG BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BELL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BELL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Hell Stone3.4 km north-west
- Clandon Barrow4.8 km north-east
- Maiden Castle5.1 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Fleet
- Chickerell
- Langton Herring
- Winterborne St. Martin
- Winterbourne Steepleton
- Abbotsbury
- Littlebredy
- Long Bredy and Kingston Russell
- Weymouth
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.