LiDAR map of Meare
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Meare, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 listed buildings, 7 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 6 m above sea level; its highest point is about 15 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 fishpond.
Meare 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 Meare, 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 Meare. 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 Meare. 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 Meare 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 24 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
- 20.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–6 m above sea level; highest 15 m
- ONS code
- E04008571
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- The Abbot's Fish House and fishpondsScheduled monument
- Lake villages NW of OxenpillScheduled monument
- Timber trackway site, 700m west of Honeygar FarmScheduled monument
- Section of the Abbot's Way trackway, 500m WSW of Honeygar FarmScheduled monument
- Sections of the Sweet Track and Post Track, 240m south west of Sunnyside FarmScheduled monument
- Sections of the Sweet Track and Post Track, 250m ESE of Station HouseScheduled monument
- Duck decoy, 950m south west of junction of Westhay Moor Drove and Lewis's DroveScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Manor Farmhouse
- Village Cross
- Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard
- Meare County Primary School
- Ferlingmere House the Old Ring O'bells Inn
- Meare War Memorial
Other recorded places
- Peat Moors CentreWikidata place
- Westhay MoorWikidata place
- Meare PoolWikidata place
- River SheppeyWikidata place
- Westhay HeathWikidata place
- Whitelake RiverWikidata place
- Galton's CanalWikidata place
- HoneygarWikidata place
- MeareWikidata place
- WesthayWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Meare Lake Villages560 m east
- Glastonbury Lake Village5.5 km east
- The Tribunal6.8 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.