LiDAR map of Mells
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Mells, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 14 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries, 2 registered parks and gardens, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 104 m and 160 m above sea level; its highest point is about 186 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 industrial sites.
Mells 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 Mells, 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 Mells. 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 Mells. 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 Mells 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
- 14.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 104–160 m above sea level; highest 186 m
- ONS code
- E04008572
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Mells Manor HouseRegistered park or garden
- Wadbury campScheduled monument
- Kingsdown camp, Mells DownScheduled monument
- Mells Down CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Wadbury CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Fussell's Lower Works: an iron edge tool works, 210m south east of WadburyScheduled monument
- Mells ParkRegistered park or garden
- Lime Kiln Hill Quarry CaveScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Mells Village Hall
- Mells War Memorial
- Park House
- Lock-up
- Church of St Edmund
- Public Shelter
- Vobster Inn Bridge
- Memorial Well
- Former Reading Room
- Roadside Grotto
- Former School
- Chest Tomb of Mckenna Family
- Bridge
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Old Ironstone Works, MellsWikidata place
- Mells Road railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Wadbury Camp1.8 km east
- Kingsdown Camp2.2 km north
- Tedbury Camp2.4 km 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.