LiDAR map of Wool
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wool, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 36 recorded places here: 15 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 9 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 6 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 15 m and 53 m above sea level; its highest point is about 83 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns and 1 Roman site.
Wool 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 Wool, 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 Wool. 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 Wool. 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 15 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Wool 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 (15 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
- 14.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 36
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 15–53 m above sea level; highest 83 m
- ONS code
- E04003490
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Barrow group 200m north-east of Woodman's CrossScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 350m north west of Gatehouse FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 300m south east of Hyford CottageScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 380m north west of Hyford CottageScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 85m and 130m south west of Cambrai HouseScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement siteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Remains of Bindon Abbey
- Parish Church of the Holy Rood
- Former Church
- Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph
- Rose Mullion Tea Rooms
- Pair of Table Tombs in Churchyard
- Table-tomb in Churchyard
- Broomhill Bridge
- The Village Pound
Other recorded places
- Bovington CampWikidata place
- Turners Puddle HeathWikidata place
- The Tank MuseumWikidata place
- Wool railway stationWikidata place
- WoolWikidata place
- Royal Tank Regiment Memorial, Bovington TankWikidata place
- BARROW\ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- FIRING RANGEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- ARMY CAMPAerial survey feature
- AIR RAID SHELTER\BUNKERAerial survey feature
- SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- ARMY CAMPAerial survey feature
- HOLLOWAerial survey feature
- WEIRAerial survey feature
- ICEHOUSEAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Bindon Abbey2.2 km south-east
- The Five Marys round barrow cemetery6.1 km south-west
- Lulworth Castle6.3 km south
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.