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LiDAR map of Freshwater
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Freshwater, a parish in Isle of Wight, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 149 recorded places here: 80 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 46 listed buildings, 14 places recorded in Wikidata, 9 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 3 m and 62 m above sea level; its highest point is about 146 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 barrows or cairns, 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 long barrow or chambered tomb.
Freshwater 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 Freshwater, 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 Freshwater. 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 Freshwater. 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 80 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Freshwater 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 (80 features in the parish) and the 149 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
- Isle of Wight, England
- Area
- 14.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 149
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 3–62 m above sea level; highest 146 m
- ONS code
- E04001301
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Long mortuary enclosure on Tennyson Down, 800m west of Freshwater Bay HouseScheduled monument
- Long barrow and part of a round barrow cemetery 130m SSE of Freshwater Bay Golf Clubhouse, on Afton DownScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 200m south east of Freshwater Bay Golf Clubhouse: part of a round barrow cemetery on Afton DownScheduled monument
- Three bowl barrows 280m south east of Freshwater Bay Golf Clubhouse: part of a round barrow cemetery on Afton DownScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 340m south east of Freshwater Bay Golf Clubhouse: part of a round barrow cemetery on Afton DownScheduled monument
- Three confluent bowl barrows 340m ESE of Freshwater Bay Golf Clubhouse: part of a round barrow cemetery on Afton DownScheduled monument
- Round barrow cemetery on East Afton DownScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow on Tapnell DownScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 350m north east of Compton FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Golden Hill Fort
- Farringford Hotel
- Fort Albert
- All Saints Church
- Fort Victoria
- Monument on Afton Down
- Freshwater Redoubt
- Afton Manor
- Monument to William Barnes Against Northernmost
- Church of St Agnes
- See-saw searchlight emplacement at Fort Victoria
- Monument to William Mew 1.
- Monument to Ann White
- Monument to David Jones
- Monument to James Arnold
- Monument to Samuel White
- Monument to Thomas Urry Against Chancel North
- Monument to Robert Young
- Monument to John and Elizabeth Temple
- Monument to Mary Gosden 1/
- Monument to William Barbon
- Monument to Jane Young
- Urry Monument
- Monument to Ann Pittis
- Monument
- Lychgate to All Saints' Church
- Milestone
- Monument to John Orbor
- Monument to Ann Brett
- Monument to David Urry Against Chancel North Wall
and 16 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Isle of Wight Festival 1970Wikidata place
- Cliff End BatteryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Golden Hill Fort1.5 km north-west
- Yarmouth Castle3.0 km north
- Bouldnor Battery4.4 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.