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LiDAR map of Ilkley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ilkley, a parish in West Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 108 recorded places here: 66 scheduled monuments, 24 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 Roman inscriptions. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 77 m and 361 m above sea level; its highest point is about 402 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 enclosures and other earthworks, 6 industrial sites, 5 barrows or cairns and 1 church or chapel.
Ilkley 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 Ilkley, 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 Ilkley. 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 Ilkley. 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 4 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
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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 (4 features in the parish) and the 108 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
- West Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 18.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 108
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 77–361 m above sea level; highest 402 m
- ONS code
- E04000160
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Three carved rocks opposite St Margaret's ChurchScheduled monument
- Carved rock known as the Swastika StoneScheduled monument
- Two carved rocks near Neb StoneScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock 10m south of West RockScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock known as the Sepulchre Stone, Addingham MoorsideScheduled monument
- Carved rock in wall of grounds of Overdale Nursing HomeScheduled monument
- Carved rock next to the drive of Overdale Nursing HomeScheduled monument
- Rock in Panorama Woods with single cup and ring carvingScheduled monument
- Group of four carved rocks in Panorama WoodsScheduled monument
- Enclosures, small cairnfield and carved rocks on Pancake RidgeScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock between Keighley Gate and Silver Well CottageScheduled monument
- Cup and Ring marked rock known as the Hanging Stone RockScheduled monument
- Carved rock known as the Anvil RockScheduled monument
- Carved rock known as the Barmishaw StoneScheduled monument
- Large carved boulder on eminence between two streams east of Barmishaw WellScheduled monument
- Carved rock known as the Badger StoneScheduled monument
- Rock with three cup marks 150m south west of Black Beck HoleScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock 370m SSW of Panorama ReservoirScheduled monument
- Flat carved rock 150m south west of Silver Well CottageScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock 350m SSW of Panorama ReservoirScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock 39m south east of entrance to Silver Well CottageScheduled monument
- Carved rock south east of entrance to Silver Well CottageScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock east of entrance to Silver Well CottageScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock overlooking bend in Ilkley-Keighley road, 185m south east of Neb StoneScheduled monument
- Prominent cup and ring marked rock on Coarse Stone EdgeScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock between Spicey Gill and the Ilkley-Keighley roadScheduled monument
- Section of rubble walling east of Grammar School Cairn, on Cranshaw Thorn HillScheduled monument
- Carved rock and associated prehistoric walling above Backstone Beck, 200 WNW of Gill Head ReservoirScheduled monument
- Two cup marked rocks 220m west of Highfield HouseScheduled monument
- Two fragments of carved bedrock east of Crocodile Rock, near west end of Hangingstones QuarryScheduled monument
- Two cup marked rocks in path south east of quarry at Cow and Calf RocksScheduled monument
- Carved rock known as Planets Rock 180m north east of the Gill Head ReservoirScheduled monument
- Enclosure with carved rocks and disturbed cairn known as Green Crag EnclosureScheduled monument
- Large cup marked rock west of Green Crag EnclosureScheduled monument
- Large rock with single cup mark at point where path through Green Crag Enclosure reaches top of slopeScheduled monument
- Rock with cup marks 33m north east of Green Crag EnclosureScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock on slope south of Green Crag EnclosureScheduled monument
- Carved rock 80m east of Green Crag EnclosureScheduled monument
- Large rock with single cup mark 130m south east of and overlooking Green Crag EnclosureScheduled monument
- Enclosed settlement containing three carved rocks known as Backstone Beck EnclosureScheduled monument
- Rock with five cups near Haystack RockScheduled monument
- Rock with two cup marks south east of quarry at Cow and Calf RocksScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock on low knoll west of and overlooking Cow and Calf HotelScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock 200m west of Cow and Calf HotelScheduled monument
- Carved rock 100m north east of eastern Grainings Head QuarryScheduled monument
- Carved rock 80m NNE of Badger StoneScheduled monument
- Carved rock 110m north east of Badger StoneScheduled monument
- Grooved rock and cup and ring marked rock 420m east of Badger StoneScheduled monument
- Rock with three cupmarks west of West Rock and 225m south of White WellsScheduled monument
- Carved rock known as Pepperpot Rock and adjacent small carved rock west of West Rock and 215m south of White WellsScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock lying 200m south of and above White WellsScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock 230m south of and above White WellsScheduled monument
- Carved rock 70m south west of Gill Head ReservoirScheduled monument
- Carved rock on Cranshaw Thorn Hill above Ilkley Crags, 560m west of Gill Head ReservoirScheduled monument
- Carved rock on Cranshaw Thorn Hill above Ilkley Crags, 465m west of Gill Head ReservoirScheduled monument
- Carved rock in a valley on south side of Cranshaw Thorn Hill 460m WSW of Gill Head ReservoirScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock 300m NNW of Gill Head ReservoirScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock 90m WSW of Gill Head ReservoirScheduled monument
- Cairn at Rombalds Moor triangulation pillarScheduled monument
- Cairnfield, carved rocks and associated curved bank at north west end of Green Crag Slack, east of Gill Head ReservoirScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Manor House
- Heathcote, subsidiary buildings and structures
- White Wells
- Wells House
- Town Hall
- Myddleton Lodge
- Ilkley Hall
- Low Hall
- Ilkley Station
- United Reformed Church
- Lister's Arms Hotel
- Crescent Hotel
- Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery
- Ilkley Lido
- Northern chapel at Ilkley cemetery
- Church of All Saints Hall
- Old Grammar School
- Winter Garden
- Post Box at Junction with Denton Road, on North
- All Saints First School
- 'Story of Wool' sculptural mural, International
- Milestone
- Milestone
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Ilkley Literature FestivalWikidata place
- The TarnWikidata place
- Wharfedale Hydropathic Establishment and BenWikidata place
- Ilkley PlayhouseWikidata place
- Dales WayWikidata place
- Yorkshire Heritage WayWikidata place
- Abbott's HikeWikidata place
- Ben Rhydding railway stationWikidata place
- Ben RhyddingWikidata place
- IlkleyRoman inscription
- IlkleyRoman inscription
- IlkleyRoman inscription
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- ROUND CAIRNAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Ilkley Roman Fort750 m north
- Swastika Stone2.1 km west
- Twelve Apostles of Ilkley Moor2.3 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.