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LiDAR map of Somerset

Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Somerset at one metre per pixel, with the 10,717 recorded historic places the heritage records hold here, the Roman roads and the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1843–1913 over the same ground. Free, in a browser.

Open Somerset in the LiDAR map → The full map is built for a laptop or desktop browser.
10,717Recorded places
728Scheduled monuments
4,814listed buildings
2,726Aerial survey features
1,159places recorded in Wikidata
Cadbury Castle, Somerset, on bare-earth LiDAR
Cadbury Castle on the bare-earth LiDAR, 2.2 km across, north at the top. LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence.

Places on the LiDAR in Somerset

Each page shows the site on the LiDAR with its record, its location and the recorded places around it.

LiDAR maps of the parishes of Somerset

One page for each of the 419 parishes, with a LiDAR picture and the recorded places inside it.

About the LiDAR

The terrain model is made from an airborne laser survey with vegetation and buildings removed, so earthworks show as height: hillfort ramparts, barrows, Roman road banks, hollow ways and ridge and furrow. In the app the picture is computed as you change the settings, with a moveable sun, a local relief model, multidirectional hillshading and the VAT composite. See how to read a LiDAR map and what archaeology looks like on LiDAR.

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Last updated 2026-10-16.