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LiDAR map of Somerby
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Somerby, a parish in Leicestershire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 16 recorded places here: 9 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 lost settlements, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 127 m and 187 m above sea level; its highest point is about 208 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 hillfort.
Somerby 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 Somerby, 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 Somerby. 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 Somerby. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Somerby 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 and the 16 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
- Leicestershire, England
- Area
- 21.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 16
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 127–187 m above sea level; highest 208 m
- ONS code
- E04005533
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Burrough Iron Age hill fortScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of All Saints
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Burrough Manor House
- Pickwell War Memorial
- The Stilton Cheese
- Somerby County Primary School
and 2 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Burrough CourtWikidata place
- Burrough on the HillWikidata place
- LeesthorpeWikidata place
- Burrough HillLost settlement
- Leesthorpe SK792136 Deserted Medieval Village in PickwellLost settlement
Nearest places with their own page
- Burrough Hill2.9 km west
- Sauvey Castle6.9 km south
- Oakham Castle7.9 km south-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.