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LiDAR map of Compton Abdale
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Compton Abdale, a parish in Gloucestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 17 recorded places here: 8 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 listed buildings, 1 scheduled monument, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 166 m and 239 m above sea level; its highest point is about 255 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site.
Compton Abdale 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 Compton Abdale, 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 Compton Abdale. 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 Compton Abdale. 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 8 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Compton Abdale 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 (8 features in the parish) and the 17 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
- 8.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 17
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 166–239 m above sea level; highest 255 m
- ONS code
- E04004213
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Compton Abdale Roman villaScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Oswald
- Chest Tomb
- John Wilson Monument
- Compton Abdale War Memorial
- Josiah Dyer Monument
- The Corn Mill and Mill Wheel
- Crocodile Water Spout at T Junction at Centre
Other recorded places
- Compton AbdaleWikidata place
- CULTIVATION TERRACE\LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- CULTIVATION TERRACE\HOUSE PLATFORMAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY DITCH\DITCHED ENCLOSURE\STOCK ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CULTIVATION TERRACE\LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- BUILDING PLATFORMAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENT\SHEEP FOLDAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Hazleton long barrows, north and south2.9 km north
- Chedworth Roman Villa2.9 km south
- Notgrove Long Barrow6.0 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.