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LiDAR map of Wareham Town
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wareham Town, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 55 recorded places here: 30 listed buildings, 18 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 5 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 0 m and 20 m above sea level; its highest point is about 39 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns, 1 church or chapel, 1 motte or ringwork and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Wareham Town 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 Wareham Town, 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 Wareham Town. 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 Wareham Town. 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 Wareham Town 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 55 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
- 6.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 55
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 0–20 m above sea level; highest 39 m
- ONS code
- E04012327
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- St Martin's ChurchScheduled monument
- Part of the defences of the Anglo-Saxon fortified centre of Wareham and part of the motte and bailey castle with shell keepScheduled monument
- Four bowl barrows 150m north east of Seven Barrows FarmScheduled monument
- Four bowl barrows 70m east of Seven Barrows FarmScheduled monument
- Linear earthwork on Wareham Common, 350m north west and 420m north east of Little FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Parish Church of Lady St Mary
- Holy Trinity Gallery
- No 9
- Unitarian Church
- Black Bear Hotel
- The Priory of Lady St Mary
- No 22
- Streche's Almhouses
- No 13
- Wareham Railway Station
- Congregational Church
- West Mill
- The Red Lion Hotel
- No 46
- Warehouse in Occupation of Messrs W Pond
- The Duke of Wellington Public House
- Senior Citizens Room
- Christmas Close Hospital
- The Former Dorset County Council Junior School
- The Rex Cinema
- Old Goods Shed
- Railway Bridge to North
- Bridge Over Sluice
- North Bridge
- Bridge
- Milestone
and 4 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Wareham CastleWikidata place
- Purbeck miniature railwayWikidata place
- HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- DEFENCE LINEAerial survey feature
- SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE SYSTEM\LINEAR EARTHWORKAerial survey feature
- ALLOTMENTAerial survey feature
- BOWLING GREEN\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- LINEAR EARTHWORKAerial survey feature
- LINEAR EARTHWORKAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- St Martin's Church, Wareham220 m south-west
- Woolsbarrow Hillfort5.5 km north-west
- Corfe Castle6.6 km south-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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.