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LiDAR map of Painswick
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Painswick, a parish in Gloucestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 103 recorded places here: 76 listed buildings, 14 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 11 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 101 m and 235 m above sea level; its highest point is about 282 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site.
Painswick 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 Painswick, 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 Painswick. 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 Painswick. 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 Painswick 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 103 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
- 25.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 103
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 101–235 m above sea level; highest 282 m
- ONS code
- E04004372
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Kimsbury CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Painswick Roman villa (W of High Fold)Scheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Painswick House
- Court House
- Beacon House
- Painswick Lodge
- Holcombe House
- Castle Godwyn
- Church of St Mary
- Pigeon House at Painswick House
- Byfield House
- Tower House
- Loveday and Unidentified Monuments
- Group of 8 Packer and Other Monuments
- The Post Office and the Beehive
- Town Hall
- The Gables
- Well Head
- Group of Eight Monuments
- John Bryan Monument
- Four Monuments in Churchyard
- Castle and Three Unidentified Memorials
- Ram House
- The Sheephouse
- Brownshill Court
- New Hall
- Gothic Seat
- The Cottage Wick Street House
- Well Farmhouse
- The Red House
- Spring Head and Pool
- Yew Tree House
and 46 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Slad BrookWikidata place
- Workmans Wood, SheepscombeWikidata place
- Bull Cross, The Frith and Juniper HillWikidata place
- Edge CommonWikidata place
- Snows Farm Nature ReserveWikidata place
- Swift's Hill SSSIWikidata place
- EdgeWikidata place
- GloucestershireWikidata place
- SladWikidata place
- OliversWikidata place
- Slad War MemorialWikidata place
- MOTTEAerial survey feature
- SCARPAerial survey feature
- HILLFORTAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- DESERTED SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- GARDEN FEATUREAerial survey feature
- MILITARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- MILITARY ROADAerial survey feature
- CROSS DYKEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Painswick Hill (or Kimsbury) camp2.7 km north
- Great Witcombe Roman Villa5.4 km north-east
- Woodchester Roman Villa7.3 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Stroud
- Whiteshill and Ruscombe
- Pitchcombe
- Bisley-with-Lypiatt
- Miserden
- Cranham
- Upton St. Leonards
- Harescombe
- Brookthorpe-with-Whaddon
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.