LiDAR map of Verwood
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Verwood, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 30 recorded places here: 18 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 scheduled monuments, 6 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 20 m and 57 m above sea level; its highest point is about 96 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns and 1 industrial site.
Verwood 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 Verwood, 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 Verwood. 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 Verwood. 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 18 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Verwood 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 (18 features in the parish) and the 30 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
- 16.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 30
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 20–57 m above sea level; highest 96 m
- ONS code
- E04012819
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Oval barrow on Pistle Down, 1010m north east of Stephen's CastleScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows on Mount Ararat, 865m and 910m north east of Stephen's CastleScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Mount Ararat, 550m east of Burrows FarmScheduled monument
- Stephen's Castle, a bowl barrow 720m east of Eastworth FarmScheduled monument
- Potteries at Prairie FarmScheduled monument
- Sandalholme pottery worksScheduled monument
Other recorded places
- Verwood railway stationWikidata place
- River CraneWikidata place
- The HubWikidata place
- Three Legged CrossWikidata place
- VerwoodWikidata place
- EbblakeWikidata place
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- CHIMNEY\EXTRACTIVE PITAerial survey feature
- PADDOCKAerial survey feature
- BOMBING DECOYAerial survey feature
- BOMBING DECOYAerial survey feature
- BOMBING DECOYAerial survey feature
- FIELDWORKAerial survey feature
- FIELDWORKAerial survey feature
- FIELDWORKAerial survey feature
- PARISH BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\FIELD BOUNDARYAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- POTTERY KILNAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Rockbourne Roman Villa9.6 km north
- Dudsbury Camp10.0 km south
- Knoll Camp10.9 km north
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.