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LiDAR map of Rotherham
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 161 recorded places here: 75 places recorded in Wikidata, 56 listed buildings, 13 scheduled monuments, 8 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 canal structures. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Rotherham lies between about 24 m and 106 m above sea level; its highest point is about 148 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 9 Roman sites, 1 enclosure or other earthwork, 1 moated site and 1 motte or ringwork.
Rotherham 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 Rotherham, 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 Rotherham. 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 Rotherham. 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 8 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Rotherham 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 (8 features in this area) and the 161 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
- 66.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 161
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 24–106 m above sea level; highest 148 m
- ONS code
- E43000172
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Caesar's Camp, Scholes CoppiceScheduled monument
- Canklow Hill earthworksScheduled monument
- Kimberworth Manor moated siteScheduled monument
- Roman Ridge: SE of Hill Top (section 700yds (660m) long, Meadowhall Road to Hill Top)Scheduled monument
- Roman Ridge: section 400yds (370m) long from Hill Top Lane to Little Common LaneScheduled monument
- Roman Ridge: section 400yds (370m) long in Wath WoodScheduled monument
- Roman Ridge: section 150yds (140m) long W of Bow Brown WoodScheduled monument
- Roman Ridge: section 300yds (270m) long N of Birchwood (E of Chemical Cottages)Scheduled monument
- Roman Ridge: section 520yds (480m) E of Dyson's Cottage to Long PlantationScheduled monument
- Roman Ridge: section 140yds (130m) long in Dyson's PlantationScheduled monument
- Roman Ridge: section 110yds (100m) long, 450yds (410m) NNE of Kimberworth Park FarmScheduled monument
- Roman Ridge: section 250yds (230m) in length N of Kimberworth Park RoadScheduled monument
- Kimberworth motte and bailey castleScheduled monument
- Moorgate CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Clifton Park, RotherhamRegistered park or garden
- TemplebroughAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Rotherham Bridge
- Clifton House
- Rockingham Kiln
- Keppels Column
- Church of All Saints
- Church of All Saints
- Greasbrough War Memorial and Railed Enclosure
- Town Hall
- Swinton Hall
- Doorway Re-erected in Rock Face
- Moorgate Hall
- St Marys Rectory
- Office Premises of George Wright
- Boston Castle
- Roman Remains Resited to Rear of Clifton House
- United Reformed Church
- Talbot Lane Methodist Church
- The Factory Shop
- Walker Mausoleum and Railed Enclosure
- Premises of Guest and Chrimes
- Thomas Rotherham College
- War Memorial
- Imperial Buildings
- War Memorial near Junction of Doncaster Road
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Railings and Walled Enclosure Immediately to East
- Church of St Mary
- St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church
- Christ Church
- Church of St Thomas
and 26 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Roman RigWikidata place
- Rotherham Real Ale and Music FestivalWikidata place
- Aldwarke Main CollieryWikidata place
- Kilnhurst CollieryWikidata place
- Manvers Main CollieryWikidata place
- New Stubbin CollieryWikidata place
- Rotherham Main CollieryWikidata place
- Roundwood CollieryWikidata place
- Warren House CollieryWikidata place
- Warren Vale CollieryWikidata place
- Wath Main CollieryWikidata place
- Wath TMDWikidata place
- St Bede's Church, RotherhamWikidata place
- Thorpe HesleyWikidata place
- C F BoothWikidata place
- Doncaster Gate Hospital RotherhamWikidata place
- Abbey School, RotherhamWikidata place
- Swinton AcademyWikidata place
- Trans Pennine TrailWikidata place
- Templeborough Power StationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Rotherham Bridge790 m south-east
- Catcliffe Glass Cone4.8 km south
- Darnall Works6.0 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Sheffield
- Ecclesfield
- Whiston
- Wickersley
- Dalton
- Thrybergh
- Hooton Roberts
- Denaby
- Adwick upon Dearne
- Doncaster
- Brinsworth
- Wentworth
- Brampton Bierlow
- Barnsley
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.