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LiDAR map of Sydling St. Nicholas
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Sydling St. Nicholas, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 63 recorded places here: 46 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 scheduled monuments, 6 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 121 m and 234 m above sea level; its highest point is about 264 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 barrows or cairns, 2 enclosures and other earthworks and 1 cross.
Sydling St. Nicholas 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 Sydling St. Nicholas, 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 Sydling St. Nicholas. 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 Sydling St. Nicholas. 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 46 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Sydling St. Nicholas 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 (46 features in the parish) and the 63 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
- 20.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 63
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 121–234 m above sea level; highest 264 m
- ONS code
- E04003602
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Martin Down enclosure 300m north of Huish BarnScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Ellston HillScheduled monument
- Round barrow on North Field HillScheduled monument
- Earthworks on Loscombe HillScheduled monument
- Round barrows on Cross HillScheduled monument
- Earthwork on Cross HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on East Hill near Sydling WoodsScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on East Hill near Sydling WoodsScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on East Hill near Sydling WoodsScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Sydling WaterWikidata place
- Up SydlingWikidata place
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- OVAL ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- PARK PALEAerial survey feature
- SUB CIRCULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- WATERCRESS BEDAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Martin Down enclosure 300m north of Huish Barn1.9 km south-east
- Cerne Abbey3.8 km east
- Cerne Abbas Giant3.9 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Frampton
- Stratton
- Godmanstone
- Maiden Newton
- Nether Cerne
- Cerne Abbas
- Up Cerne
- Batcombe
- Cattistock
- Frome St. Quintin
- Hilfield
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.