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LiDAR map of Colesbourne
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Colesbourne, a parish in Gloucestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 20 recorded places here: 9 listed buildings, 7 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 166 m and 248 m above sea level; its highest point is about 271 m.
Colesbourne 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 Colesbourne, 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 Colesbourne. 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 Colesbourne. 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 7 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Colesbourne 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 (7 features in the parish) and the 20 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
- Gloucestershire, England
- Area
- 9.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 20
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 166–248 m above sea level; highest 271 m
- ONS code
- E04012378
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Norbury Camp, ColesbourneAtlas of Hillforts entry
Listed buildings
- Cross Base in the Churchyard
- Church of St James
- Colesbourne Inn
- Village Institute and Coach House
- Brown Monument in the Churchyard
- Rapsgate Park
- Village Stores and Post Office
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Cotswold Hills GeoparkWikidata place
- ColesbourneWikidata place
- Colesbourne GardensWikidata place
- HILLFORT\UNIVALLATE HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY BANK\FIELD BOUNDARY\LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- BUILDING\DESERTED SETTLEMENT\FARMSTEAD\STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY BANK\PLOUGH HEADLANDAerial survey feature
- FIELD BOUNDARY\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\STOCK ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- GARDEN FEATURE\GARDEN TERRACEAerial survey feature
- SCARPAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Chedworth Roman Villa5.5 km east
- Brimpsfield Castle5.7 km west
- Hazleton long barrows, north and south9.4 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.