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LiDAR map of Worth Matravers
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Worth Matravers, a parish in Dorset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 34 recorded places here: 14 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 scheduled monuments, 2 wrecks. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 45 m and 133 m above sea level; its highest point is about 150 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns and 1 field system.
Worth Matravers 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 Worth Matravers, 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 Worth Matravers. 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 Worth Matravers. 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 14 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Worth Matravers 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 (14 features in the parish) and the 34 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
- 11.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 34
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 45–133 m above sea level; highest 150 m
- ONS code
- E04012328
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Pillow mound 145m south east of Eastington FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on St Aldhelm's Head, 470m north east of St Aldhelm's ChapelScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Emmett's HillScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on North Hill, 400m north east of Renscombe FarmScheduled monument
- Group of medieval strip lynchets at East and West ManScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- St Aldhelm's Chapel
- Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
- Dunshay Manor House
- The Square and Compass
- Stone Coffin in the Churchyard Immediately
- Worth Matravers Post Office and Village Store
- Two Headstones to Benjamin and Elizabeth Jesty.
Other recorded places
- Chapman's Pool Lifeboat StationWikidata place
- Harman's CrossWikidata place
- St Alban's HeadWikidata place
- Harman's Cross railway stationWikidata place
- WinspitWikidata place
- Fossil MuseumWikidata place
- BUILDING PLATFORM\MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTAerial survey feature
- BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENT\MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- RADAR STATIONAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- MARBLE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Iron Age settlement4.4 km west
- Corfe Castle4.4 km north
- Rempstone Stone Circle4.4 km north-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.
- Wrecks: UK Hydrographic Office via EMODnet Human Activities, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.