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LiDAR map of Calderdale
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 489 recorded places here: 375 listed buildings, 88 places recorded in Wikidata, 12 scheduled monuments, 7 registered parks and gardens, 3 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Calderdale lies between about 91 m and 335 m above sea level; its highest point is about 448 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 barrows or cairns, 2 settlements, 2 industrial sites and 1 castle.
Calderdale 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 Calderdale, 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 Calderdale. 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 Calderdale. 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 Calderdale 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 this area) and the 489 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
- West Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 131.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 489
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 91–335 m above sea level; highest 448 m
- ONS code
- E43000293
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Peoples Park, HalifaxRegistered park or garden
- The gibbet platformScheduled monument
- Castle Hill univallate defended settlement, Kirklees ParkScheduled monument
- Castle Hill motte castle 270m north east of Rosemary HallScheduled monument
- Enclosed Bronze Age urnfield 160m west of Overgreen Royd Farm, MixendenScheduled monument
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement 350m south west of Goose Clough at Hunter Hill, OvendenScheduled monument
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement 500m north west of Goose Clough on Ovenden MoorScheduled monument
- Cairn on Midgley Moor, 400m north east of Upper Han RoydScheduled monument
- Ring cairn on Midgley Moor, 360m north east of Upper Han RoydScheduled monument
- Cairn with an oval bank on Midgley Moor, 430m north east of Upper Han RoydScheduled monument
- Lister Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- West View ParkRegistered park or garden
- Shrogg's ParkRegistered park or garden
- Stoney Royd CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Brow Pit mine shaft, gin circle, spoil heap and tramway, 270m south west of Catherine Slack FarmScheduled monument
- Ventilation chimney and furnace house 260m south of Park FarmScheduled monument
- Magna ViaScheduled monument
- Shibden HallRegistered park or garden
- Kirklees ParkRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary
- Wood Lane Hall
- Kirklees Priory Gatehouse
- Church of All Saints
- Wainhouse Tower
- Scout Hall
- Barn to Shibden Hall Museum
- Town Hall
- Ovenden Hall
- Shibden Hall
- Piece Hall, Westgate, Halifax
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Kirklees Hall Mansion
- Church of St Peter
- Church of All Souls
- Cross Base in Churchyard of St Matthews Church
- Home Farm Building Number 9 Malthouse
- Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks
- Congregational Sunday School
- Shaw Lodge Mill Weaving Sheds and Clock Tower
- West Vale Public Hall
- High Bentley
- Kershaw House
- Church of St Paul
- Steeple of Square Congregational Church
- North Bridge and Drinking Fountain
- New Hall
- Boulder Clough Bethel Chapel
- White Swan Hotel
- Borough Market with Shopping Arcade to North
and 345 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council electionWikidata place
- Old Lane TunnelWikidata place
- Lee Bank TunnelWikidata place
- Hartshead Moor servicesWikidata place
- South Pennine RingWikidata place
- St Michael and All Angels Church, Shelf, WestWikidata place
- Serbian Orthodox Church, HalifaxWikidata place
- Halifax power stationWikidata place
- Savile ParkWikidata place
- Calderdale Royal HospitalWikidata place
- Warley Moor ReservoirWikidata place
- Park Lane Learning TrustWikidata place
- Ovenden Moor Wind FarmWikidata place
- Calderdale CollegeWikidata place
- Elland Power StationWikidata place
- Hebble BrookWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Slack Roman fort8.3 km south
- Kirklees Priory9.1 km south-east
- Turnbridge Lift Bridge10.6 km south-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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.