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LiDAR map of Henstridge
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Henstridge, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 13 recorded places here: 8 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 56 m and 130 m above sea level; its highest point is about 153 m.
Henstridge 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 Henstridge, 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 Henstridge. 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 Henstridge. 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 Henstridge 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 13 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
- 17.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 13
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 56–130 m above sea level; highest 153 m
- ONS code
- E04008703
Listed buildings
- Church of St Nicholas
- War Memorial
- Base of Churchyard Cross
- Post Office House
- The Post Office
- Virgina Ash Hotel
- Road Bridge to Private Drive
- Folly Tower
Other recorded places
- Yenston PrioryWikidata place
- Gartell Light RailwayWikidata place
- Henstridge railway stationWikidata place
- HenstridgeWikidata place
- YenstonWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Sturminster Newton Castle9.1 km south-east
- Sherborne Abbey9.4 km south-west
- Fiddleford Manor10.2 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Milborne Port
- Stalbridge
- Purse Caundle
- Kington Magna
- Fifehead Magdalen
- Abbas and Templecombe
- Charlton Horethorne
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.