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LiDAR map of Chard Town
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Chard Town, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 69 recorded places here: 55 listed buildings, 12 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 78 m and 134 m above sea level; its highest point is about 182 m.
Chard Town 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 Chard Town, 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 Chard Town. 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 Chard Town. 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 12 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Chard Town 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 (12 features in the parish) and the 69 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
- Somerset, England
- Area
- 6.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 69
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 78–134 m above sea level; highest 182 m
- ONS code
- E04008675
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- The Guildhall
- War Memorial
- Baptist Church
- Factory Building, Formerly of Gifford Fox
- The Choughs Public House
- Essex House
- Chard Manor Farmhouse
- Main building at Chard School
- Monmouth House
- Group of 3 Chest Tombs
- Lloyds Bank
- Snowdon Villa
- Gillingham Monument
- Stringfellow Monument
- Remains of Town Wall Behind Nos 21, 21a and 23
- Former Joint Railway Station
- St Mary’s Church Centre
- Walls, Gates and Railings Enclosing Churchyard
- Railings and Piers to Forecourt of Baptist Church
- Cemetery Mortuary Chapels
- Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Church of the Good Shepherd
- Bowden's Old Lace Factory
- Archway at Entrance to Bowden's Old Lace Factory
- Chest Tomb
- Group of 3 Chest Tombs
- Group of 3 Chest Tombs
- The Happy Return Public House
- Harvey's Hospital
and 25 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Chard ReservoirWikidata place
- ChardWikidata place
- ANTI TANK DITCHAerial survey feature
- ANTI TANK CUBEAerial survey feature
- TEMPORARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- MOUNDAerial survey feature
- ANTI TANK DITCHAerial survey feature
- ANTI TANK CUBEAerial survey feature
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)Aerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- ANTI TANK CUBEAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- ARMY CAMPAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Forde Abbey4.8 km south-east
- Whitestaunton Camp6.6 km west
- Membury Castle7.8 km south-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.