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LiDAR map of Skipsea
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Skipsea, a parish in East Riding of Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 17 recorded places here: 7 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 5 m and 16 m above sea level; its highest point is about 22 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 motte or ringwork and 1 moated site.
Skipsea 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 Skipsea, 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 Skipsea. 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 Skipsea. 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 7 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Skipsea 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 (7 features in the parish) and the 17 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
- East Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 12.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 17
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 5–16 m above sea level; highest 22 m
- ONS code
- E04000472
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Skipsea Castle: 11th century motte and bailey castle and inland harbourScheduled monument
- Royal Observer Corps underground monitoring post and World War II visual spotting post, 200m north of Southfield HouseScheduled monument
- Hallgarth medieval hall and moatScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Skipsea BroughWikidata place
- DringhoeWikidata place
- SkirlingtonWikidata place
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTIONAerial survey feature
- AIRFIELDAerial survey feature
- MILITARY TRAINING SITEAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Skipsea Castle120 m north-east
- Market Cross8.5 km south-west
- Bayle Museum13.1 km north
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.