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LiDAR map of North Petherton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of North Petherton, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 64 recorded places here: 38 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 16 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 4 m and 112 m above sea level; its highest point is about 192 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 church or chapel.
North Petherton 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 North Petherton, 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 North Petherton. 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 North Petherton. 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 38 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See North Petherton 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 (38 features in the parish) and the 64 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
- 42.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 64
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–112 m above sea level; highest 192 m
- ONS code
- E04008637
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- The Chapel, ShearstonScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Peter
- Maunsel House
- Church of St Mary
- Remains of Churchyard Cross in Churchyard
- West Newton Manor
- Boomer Farmhouse
- Church of St Peter and St John
- Monument to Andrew Moore in Churchyard
- Lower Maunsell Bridge at Lower Maunsell Lock No
- Church of St Michael
- United Reform Church
- Combined Non Conformist and Anglican Mortuary
- Church Orchard
- War Memorial in Churchyard
- Derelict House
- Coxhill Bridge
Other recorded places
- Buckland PrioryWikidata place
- Petherton ParkWikidata place
- Bridgwater servicesWikidata place
- North PethertonWikidata place
- Northmoor GreenWikidata place
- WoolmersdonWikidata place
- MelcombeWikidata place
- ShearstonWikidata place
- HuntworthWikidata place
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- PIT\RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Balt Moor Wall4.3 km south-east
- Burrow Mump5.5 km east
- Chandos Glass Cone5.5 km north
Neighbouring parishes
- Creech St. Michael
- West Monkton
- Durston
- Thurloxton
- Lyng
- Burrowbridge
- Broomfield
- Goathurst
- Durleigh
- Bridgwater
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.