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LiDAR map of Otterford
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Otterford, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 37 recorded places here: 20 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 201 m and 288 m above sea level; its highest point is about 304 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns.
Otterford 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 Otterford, 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 Otterford. 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 Otterford. 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 20 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Otterford 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 (20 features in the parish) and the 37 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
- 9.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 37
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 201–288 m above sea level; highest 304 m
- ONS code
- E04008807
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Two bowl barrows 210m and 600m north west of Brown Down CottageScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows, one 380m west and one 685m north west of Beech CroftScheduled monument
- Two bowl barrows 190m east of Brown Down LodgeScheduled monument
- Round barrow cemetery 100m south of School FarmScheduled monument
- Robin Hood's ButtsAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Leonard
- Otterford Mills
- Pair of Willie Family Monuments in Churchyard
- Group of 3 Willie Family Monuments in Churchyard
- Road Sign at Ngr
Other recorded places
- Robin Hood's ButtsWikidata place
- Bishopswood MeadowsWikidata place
- Deadman SSSI, SomersetWikidata place
- Otterhead LakesWikidata place
- Prior's Park & Adcombe WoodWikidata place
- River CulmWikidata place
- OtterfordWikidata place
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- RING DITCHAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- BARROWAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Castle Neroche4.2 km north-east
- Whitestaunton Camp5.3 km south-east
- Hemyock Castle10.2 km 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.