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LiDAR map of Barnsley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 251 recorded places here: 129 listed buildings, 97 places recorded in Wikidata, 11 scheduled monuments, 11 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Barnsley lies between about 34 m and 131 m above sea level; its highest point is about 196 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 industrial sites, 3 crosses, 1 Roman site and 1 moated site.
Barnsley 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 Barnsley, 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 Barnsley. 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 Barnsley. 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 11 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Barnsley 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 (11 features in this area) and the 251 recorded places in this area, 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
- South Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 144.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 251
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 34–131 m above sea level; highest 196 m
- ONS code
- E43000251
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- The former Elsecar IronworksScheduled monument
- Cross in the churchyard of All Saints' Church, DarfieldScheduled monument
- Worsborough CommonAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Wayside cross known as Kirk CrossScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlements in Wombwell WoodScheduled monument
- Hallsteads moated site, GrimethorpeScheduled monument
- The former Elsecar New Colliery, including the Elsecar Newcomen EngineScheduled monument
- Monk Bretton standing crossScheduled monument
- Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite 330m south east of Lowfield FarmScheduled monument
- Locke ParkRegistered park or garden
- Rockley blast furnaceScheduled monument
- Rockley engine houseScheduled monument
- East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Monk Bretton Priory Remains
- Church of St Mary
- Gatehouse to Monk Bretton Priory
- Grimethorpe Hall
- Worsbrough Corn Mill
- Barnsley War Memorial
- Houndhill
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Church of St Andrew
- Church of All Saints
- Church of St John and St Mary Magdalene
- Administration Building at Monk Bretton Priory
- Elsecar Mill
- Building 19, former workshop at Elsecar Ironworks
- Former Cornish pumping engine house
- Bolton-Upon-Dearne War Memorial
- Church of St Peter
- Church of St Mary
- Housing at the former Elsecar Ironworks, 2 and 4
- Buildings 20a and 21, former rolling mill
- Brierley Hall
- Queen Anne's Obelisk, Off Rockley Lane, Wentworth
- Worsbrough Hall
- Dodworth Old Hall
- Thurnscoe Hall
- Building 17, former fitting shop at Elsecar
- Locke Park Tower Locke Park
- Building 22, former Joiner's Shop
- Worsbrough Hall Flats
- Buildings 4-7, stores at former Elsecar Central
and 99 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Oaks explosionWikidata place
- Lundhill Colliery explosionWikidata place
- Barrow CollieryWikidata place
- Hickleton Main CollieryWikidata place
- Wharncliffe Woodmoor 1,2 & 3 CollieryWikidata place
- Cat Hill TunnelWikidata place
- Milton IronworksWikidata place
- Open College of the ArtsWikidata place
- Cudworth railway stationWikidata place
- Royston and Notton railway stationWikidata place
- OakwellWikidata place
- Hoyland Town HallWikidata place
- Penny Pie ParkWikidata place
- Highgate StadiumWikidata place
- Barnsley HospitalWikidata place
- Kendray HospitalWikidata place
- Alhambra Shopping CentreWikidata place
- Carlton Main BrickworksWikidata place
- Darfield Foulstone School of Creative ArtsWikidata place
- Edward Sheerien SchoolWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Elsecar Ironworks5.2 km south
- Wortley Top Forge10.1 km south-west
- Rotherham Bridge12.8 km south
Neighbouring parishes
- Wortley
- Tankersley
- Stainborough
- Silkstone
- Woolley
- Adwick upon Dearne
- Barnburgh
- Hickleton
- Cawthorne
- High Hoyland
- West Bretton
- Rotherham
- Wentworth
- Brampton Bierlow
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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.