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LiDAR map of Ruspidge and Soudley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ruspidge and Soudley, a parish in Gloucestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 38 recorded places here: 21 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 listed buildings, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 104 m and 203 m above sea level; its highest point is about 238 m.
Ruspidge and Soudley 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 Ruspidge and Soudley, 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 Ruspidge and Soudley. 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 Ruspidge and Soudley. 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 21 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Ruspidge and Soudley 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 (21 features in the parish) and the 38 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
- 14.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 38
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 104–203 m above sea level; highest 238 m
- ONS code
- E04004323
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Soudley CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
Listed buildings
- Dean Heritage Museum
- Zion Chapel
- Ruspidge Methodist Church
- Former Pump House at Lightmoor Works
- Road Bridge at Soudley, at Ngr
- Former Railway Bridge by Dilke Memorial Hospital
Other recorded places
- Eastern United CollieryWikidata place
- Buckshraft Mine & Bradley Hill Railway TunnelWikidata place
- Meezy HurstWikidata place
- Soudley PondsWikidata place
- Staple Edge Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Upper Soudley Halt railway stationWikidata place
- Blaize BaileyWikidata place
- LittledeanWikidata place
- RuspidgeWikidata place
- SoudleyWikidata place
- PROMONTORY FORTAerial survey feature
- IRONSTONE MINE\SPOIL HEAPAerial survey feature
- COLLIERY\ENGINE HOUSE\HEAPSTEAD\MACHINE BED\OFFICE\SPOIL HEAP\STOREHOUSEAerial survey feature
- COAL WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- IRONSTONE WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- IRONSTONE WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSURE\WOOD BANKAerial survey feature
- LODGE\WOOD BANKAerial survey feature
- IRONSTONE MINEAerial survey feature
- MILITARY DEPOTAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Littledean Camp3.8 km north-east
- Welshbury Hill5.4 km north-east
- English Bicknor Castle8.3 km north-west
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.