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LiDAR map of Sopworth
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Sopworth, a parish in Wiltshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 10 recorded places here: 6 listed buildings, 4 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 111 m and 142 m above sea level; its highest point is about 150 m.
Sopworth 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 Sopworth, 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 Sopworth. 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 Sopworth. 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 4 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Sopworth 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 (4 features in the parish) and the 10 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
- Wiltshire, England
- Area
- 4.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 10
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 111–142 m above sea level; highest 150 m
- ONS code
- E04011816
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Sopworth War Memorial
- Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard
- Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard, 0.
- Harris and Unidentified Monument
- Group of 5 Monuments in the Churchyard, 5
Other recorded places
- CROFT\FIELD BOUNDARY\FIELD SYSTEM\SETTLEMENTAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\ROAD\TRACKWAYAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Beverston Castle7.9 km north-east
- Long barrow 500m north of Lugbury Farm8.3 km south
- Castle Combe Castle9.1 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.