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LiDAR map of Taynton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Taynton, a parish in Gloucestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 12 listed buildings, 8 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 18 m and 95 m above sea level; its highest point is about 227 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 motte or ringwork and 1 settlement.
Taynton 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 Taynton, 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 Taynton. 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 Taynton. 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 Taynton 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 24 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
- 10.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 18–95 m above sea level; highest 227 m
- ONS code
- E04004327
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Motte in Castle Hill Wood, HuntleyScheduled monument
- Medieval defensive and settlement complex at Taynton Parva, 400m north west of Moorfields FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Lawrence
- Stables, North
- Farm Store and Cider House, North
- Smith Monument in the Churchyard
- Three Unidentified Monuments, in the Churchyard
- Four Pury Monuments, in the Churchyard, Between 1
- Underwood Monument, in the Churchyard
- Group of 7 Smith Monuments, in the Churchyard
- Haynes Monument, in the Churchyard
- Wintle Monument, in the Churchyard
- Parker Monument, in the Churchyard
- Taynton War Memorial
Other recorded places
- TayntonWikidata place
- May Hill War MemorialWikidata place
- RINGWORKAerial survey feature
- BUILDING PLATFORM\CHURCH\DESERTED SETTLEMENT\FISHPOND\MOAT\MOTTE AND BAILEY\RINGAerial survey feature
- BOUNDARY DITCH\BUILDING PLATFORM\SETTLEMENT\TOFTAerial survey feature
- LANDSCAPE PARK\RIDGE AND FURROW\TREE AVENUEAerial survey feature
- BRICKWORKS\CLAY PIT\TILE WORKSAerial survey feature
- SETTLEMENT\TOFTAerial survey feature
- RIDGE AND FURROW\STEAM PLOUGHED RIGAerial survey feature
- MARL PIT\ORCHARD\RIDGE AND FURROW\STEAM PLOUGHED RIGAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Dymock Castle Tump7.5 km north
- Welshbury Hill8.5 km south-west
- Ariconium8.8 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.