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LiDAR map of West Stafford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of West Stafford, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 36 recorded places here: 22 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 10 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 46 m and 74 m above sea level; its highest point is about 90 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns.
West Stafford 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 West Stafford, 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 West Stafford. 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 West Stafford. 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 22 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See West Stafford 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 (22 features in the parish) and the 36 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
- 4.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 36
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 46–74 m above sea level; highest 90 m
- ONS code
- E04003616
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Henge Enclosure, Conquer Barrow and Barrow CemeteryScheduled monument
- Sandy BarrowScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 600m west of Stafford FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill 500m north of Whitcombe FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of Saint Andrew
- Stafford House
- Manor House
- John Gilbert and Elizabeth Roper Monuments
- William Anthony Monument, in the Churchyard
- Davine Petrela the Forge
- Barton Barn
- Parish Hall
- Brewery Cottage Woodman's Cottage
- Bridge
Other recorded places
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROW\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROW\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROW\RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- HENGEAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Medieval settlement of Winterborne Farringdon2.6 km south-west
- Dorchester Roman walls3.2 km north-west
- Maumbury Rings3.2 km west
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.