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LiDAR map of Skipton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Skipton, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 80 recorded places here: 59 listed buildings, 9 scheduled monuments, 7 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 2 canal structures. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 98 m and 320 m above sea level; its highest point is about 372 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 enclosure or other earthwork and 1 settlement.
Skipton 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 Skipton, 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 Skipton. 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 Skipton. 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 3 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Skipton 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 (3 features in the parish) and the 80 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
- North Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 15.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 80
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 98–320 m above sea level; highest 372 m
- ONS code
- E04012269
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Park Hill earthworkScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock in wall at High Snaygill 80m east of High LaitheScheduled monument
- Rock with at least 15 cups 240m south of Great Wood Laithe, Horse Close HillScheduled monument
- Rock with one cup at the base of a wall, 250m NNE of Cawder Hall Farm, Horse Close HillScheduled monument
- Two carved rocks in field 130m north east of Cawder Hall Farm, Horse Close HillScheduled monument
- Rock with one cup in east end of Great Wood Plantation, 375m NNE of Cawder Hall Farm, Horse Close HillScheduled monument
- Rock with one cup in field south east of Great Wood Plantation, 450m north east of Cawder Hall Farm, Horse Close HillScheduled monument
- Rock with at least one cup mark 310m east of Cawder Hall FarmScheduled monument
- Subcircular enclosed settlement on Horse Close Hill 250m north of Horse Close FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Skipton Castle
- Christ Church
- Outer Gatehouse to Skipton Castle
- Former Chapel at Skipton Castle
- High Corn Mill
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Union Mills
- Devonshire Hotel
- Former Aireville Hall at Aireville School
- Castle Inn
- Attached outbuildings to the Red Lion Inn
- Roman Catholic Church of St Stephen
- United Reformed and Methodist Church of St
- Brindley Mill
- The Barge Inn
- Craven Hotel
- Victoria Mill
- Statue of Sir Mathew Wilson
- The Tolbooth
- Dewhurst's Mill
- The Black Horse Public House
- Former Midland Bank
- Pack-horse Bridge Over Wilderness Beck
- New Bridge
- The Chapel
- Ackroyds
- Canopy
- Barclays Bank
- Former Hole I' Th' Wall Public House with Shop
- Electricity Sub-station
and 29 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Skipton WoodWikidata place
- Eller BeckWikidata place
- Skipton General HospitalWikidata place
- Otley Road drill hall, SkiptonWikidata place
- Copper Dragon BreweryWikidata place
- Aireville ParkWikidata place
- Raikeswood HospitalWikidata place
- APPROACH ROADAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- SANDSTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- Aqueduct 43, Waller HillCanal structure
- Aqueduct 42, Eller BeckCanal structure
Nearest places with their own page
- Kildwick Bridge6.1 km south
- Barden Tower7.8 km north-east
- Bolton Priory8.0 km east
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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.