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LiDAR map of Portbury
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Portbury, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 12 recorded places here: 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 listed buildings, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 scheduled monument, 1 aerial survey feature. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 6 m and 109 m above sea level; its highest point is about 154 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 military site.
Portbury 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 Portbury, 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 Portbury. 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 Portbury. 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 1 aerial survey feature in the area. More about this map
See Portbury 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 (1 feature in the parish) and the 12 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
- 10.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 12
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 6–109 m above sea level; highest 154 m
- ONS code
- E04012096
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- ConygarAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Portbury Heavy Anti-aircraft Battery, 180m north-west of Springfield CottageScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Monument to Davids and Maynard, in the Churchyard
- Monument to the Ballard Family, in the Churchyard
- Portbury Mill Ye Olde Mill
Other recorded places
- Portbury AshlandsWikidata place
- Portbury railway stationWikidata place
- SheepwayWikidata place
- PortburyWikidata place
- Oakham TreasuresWikidata place
- ANTI AIRCRAFT DEFENCE SITE\BARRAGE BALLOON SITEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Conygar580 m east
- Nailsea Glassworks4.5 km south
- Elms Colliery4.7 km south
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.