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LiDAR map of Leeds
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Leeds, West Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 954 recorded places here: 598 listed buildings, 276 places recorded in Wikidata, 40 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 23 scheduled monuments, 7 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Leeds lies between about 30 m and 162 m above sea level; its highest point is about 343 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns, 3 settlements, 1 castle and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Leeds 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 Leeds, 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 Leeds. 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 Leeds. 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 40 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Leeds 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 (40 features in this area) and the 954 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
- 257.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 954
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 30–162 m above sea level; highest 343 m
- ONS code
- E43000294
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Rothwell CastleScheduled monument
- Pudsey CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Quarry HillAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Middleton Park shaft moundsScheduled monument
- Length of Grim's Ditch from Cotton Road East to the A63, Colton CommonScheduled monument
- Cairn on Hawksworth Moor; largest one of a group of cairnsScheduled monument
- Two cairns on Hawksworth Moor, one with an internal cistScheduled monument
- Small cairn north east of large cairn on Hawksworth MoorScheduled monument
- Ring cairn 475m south east of the Great Skirtful of StonesScheduled monument
- Carved rock in Hawksworth SpringScheduled monument
- Rock with parallel grooves 95m west of flag post on Craven Hall HillScheduled monument
- Cup, ring and groove marked rock 15m from south wall of Gab Wood 300m east of Moseley Farm, CookridgeScheduled monument
- Cup, ring and groove marked rock 2m south of north wall of Gab Wood 330m E of Moseley Farm, CookridgeScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock in Calverley Wood, 200m north east of junction of Calverley Cutting and Thornhill DriveScheduled monument
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlements in Gipton Wood, at the southern end of Oakwood DriveScheduled monument
- Length of Grim's Ditch extending 1.4km from a point 70m south of Cotton Road East to the south east corner of Avenue WoodScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle settlement in Clayton Wood on the south west side of Iveson DriveScheduled monument
- Stone hut circle settlement in Iveson WoodScheduled monument
- Length of Grim's Ditch 260m west of Brown Moor FarmScheduled monument
- Cairn west of Craven Hall HillScheduled monument
- Enclosure 50m north east of Horncliff Slade on Hawksworth MoorScheduled monument
- High Royds HospitalRegistered park or garden
- Lawnswood CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Medieval farmstead in Ireland Wood, 150m north east of Cookridge HospitalScheduled monument
- Armley HouseRegistered park or garden
- York Gate GardensRegistered park or garden
- Former World War I National Filling Factory, BarnbowScheduled monument
- Shrunken medieval village of ColtonScheduled monument
- Owlcotes deserted medieval villageScheduled monument
- Oulton HallRegistered park or garden
- Roundhay ParkRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Church of the Epiphany
- Temple Newsam House
- City Markets
- Corn Exchange
- Town Hall
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Holy Trinity Church
- Calverley Old Hall
- Whitelock's Ale House
- Adult Education Centre, University of Leeds
- Temple Mill
- Kirkstall Abbey
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Ledston Hall
- St Margarets Church
- Stank Hall Barn
- Former Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Warehouse
- Civic Hall
- Time Ball Buildings
- First Leeds Cloth Hall
- Leeds City Museum
- Church of St Mary
- Austhorpe Hall
- Mill Hill Chapel
- Memorial to Queen Victoria
- University of Leeds School of Medicine
- City Varieties
- Marshall Mills
- Fulneck Moravian Chapel
- Church of St Oswald
and 568 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Leeds dripping riotWikidata place
- Chapeltown BarracksWikidata place
- First Direct Bank ArenaWikidata place
- Bramley Fall stoneWikidata place
- Richmond Hill TunnelWikidata place
- Carlton BarracksWikidata place
- Greenside TunnelWikidata place
- Esholt Junction rail crashWikidata place
- Bramley ParkWikidata place
- Kirkstall Power StationWikidata place
- Altus HouseWikidata place
- Pudsey BeckWikidata place
- Temple Newsam PreceptoryWikidata place
- Yeadon railway stationWikidata place
- Leeds Bradford AirportWikidata place
- RibbonsWikidata place
- Our Lady of Lourdes Church, LeedsWikidata place
- Sinai Synagogue, LeedsWikidata place
- St Patrick's Church, LeedsWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Kirkstall Abbey3.7 km north-west
- Howley Hall; a 16th century country house and gardens8.9 km south
- Barnbow Munitions Factory10.1 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Ledsham
- Micklefield
- Kirklees
- Morley
- Drighlington
- Gildersome
- Horsforth
- Carlton
- Bramhope
- Bingley
- Wakefield
- Normanton and Altofts
- Allerton Bywater
- Great and Little Preston
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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.