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LiDAR map of South Swindon
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of South Swindon, a parish in Wiltshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 70 recorded places here: 43 listed buildings, 21 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 2 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 100 m and 129 m above sea level; its highest point is about 148 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns, 1 henge or standing stone and 1 church or chapel.
South Swindon 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 South Swindon, 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 South Swindon. 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 South Swindon. 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 South Swindon 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 70 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
- 16.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 70
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 100–129 m above sea level; highest 148 m
- ONS code
- E04012664
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bowl barrow 210m north east of Rushy Platt FarmScheduled monument
- Stone circle immediately north east of Day House, CoateScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House CottagesScheduled monument
- Town Gardens, SwindonRegistered park or garden
- Remains of Holy Rood Church, The Lawn, Old TownScheduled monument
- Queen's Park, SwindonRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Health Hydro
- Christ Church
- The Mechanics' Institute
- Town Hall
- Villetts House
- Gooch Tomb in churchyard
- Pig on the Hill Public House
- Former model lodging house for GWR workers, later
- Bell Hotel
- Queens Hotel
- The Glue Pot Public House
- Richard Jefferies Museum
- Anderson's Hostel
- Euclid Street School
- Swindon Civic Offices
- Bath Road Methodist Church
- Cambria Baptist Chapel
- Milestone
- British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works
- Armstrong monument in the south-west corner
- Churchward Tomb
- Belmont Brewery
- Former Bakers Arms Public House, 16 Emlyn Square
- The Royal Oak
- Gates to North East Entrance of Town Gardens
- Corn Exchange and Town Hall
- Water Tower
- Cricket Pavilion, Cricket Ground
- Goddard Arms Hotel
- Central Community Centre
and 13 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Fir Clump Stone CircleWikidata place
- Wyvern TheatreWikidata place
- Holy Rood Church, SwindonWikidata place
- Swindon Law CourtsWikidata place
- Great Western HospitalWikidata place
- Coate Water Country ParkWikidata place
- Great Quarry, SwindonWikidata place
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWikidata place
- Princess Margaret Hospital, SwindonWikidata place
- Museum of Computing at SwindonWikidata place
- New College, SwindonWikidata place
- Okus QuarryWikidata place
- St. Joseph's Catholic CollegeWikidata place
- Swindon MuseumWikidata place
- Old Town Railway Cutting, SwindonWikidata place
- Rushey Platt railway stationWikidata place
- Swindon Town railway stationWikidata place
- Apsley HouseWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Day House Lane Stone Circle2.1 km south-east
- Liddington Castle5.9 km south-east
- Bincknoll Castle7.2 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Wroughton
- West Swindon
- Central Swindon North
- Chiseldon
- Liddington
- Nythe, Eldene and Liden
- Stratton St Margaret
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.