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LiDAR map of Silsden
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Silsden, a parish in West Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 44 recorded places here: 24 scheduled monuments, 13 listed buildings, 4 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 canal structures. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 105 m and 331 m above sea level; its highest point is about 393 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn, 1 industrial site and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Silsden 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 Silsden, 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 Silsden. 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 Silsden. 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
See Silsden 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 (4 features in the parish) and the 44 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
- 28.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 44
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 105–331 m above sea level; highest 393 m
- ONS code
- E04000162
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round barrow 500ft (150m) NNW of Marchup Plantation in Parson's LaneScheduled monument
- Large carved rock in the wall between grouse moor and forestry plantation on RivockScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock 47m south east of Rivock Edge triangulation pillarScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock 42m east of Rivock Edge triangulation pillarScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock near wall below Rivock EdgeScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock 1m from wall on unforested plateau at RivockScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock 14m from the wall on the unforested plateau at RivockScheduled monument
- Five carved rocks near the edge of Rivock outcropScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock just within afforested area north east of wall on RivockScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock in forestry furrow on RivockScheduled monument
- Large cup and ring marked rock in forestry furrows on RivockScheduled monument
- Low rock with one cup on unforested plateau at RivockScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock 19m above forestry track in Rivock conifer plantationScheduled monument
- Two cup and ring marked rocks in conifer plantation on RivockScheduled monument
- Rock with single cup mark in forestry SSE of Black PotsScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock in enclosed pasture NNE of Black PotsScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock 12.5m from drainage cut NNE of Black PotsScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock next to wall NNW of Black PotsScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock on moor east of Gawk StonesScheduled monument
- Two prominent cup marked rock outcrops known as Doubler StonesScheduled monument
- Cup marked rock between Doubler Stones and Gawk StonesScheduled monument
- Cup and ring marked rock below Brunthwaite CragScheduled monument
- Six carved rocks in field west of Riddlesden Golf CourseScheduled monument
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement with an outlying bank and ditch on Counter Hill, 220m north east of Moorcock HallScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Silsden Bridge
- Waterloo Mill
- Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Church of St James the Great
- Footbridge
- Canal warehouse belonging to Pennine Boats
- Canal Warehouse, T.w. Shuttleworth and Son
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Aqueduct Over
- Barden Aqueduct
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- BELL PIT\COAL WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- BELL PIT\COAL WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- SANDSTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- PILLOW MOUNDAerial survey feature
- Aqueduct 47, HoldenCanal structure
- Aqueduct 46, SilsdenCanal structure
- Aqueduct 46A, Silesden footwayCanal structure
Nearest places with their own page
- Swastika Stone4.2 km east
- Kildwick Bridge4.3 km west
- Ilkley Roman Fort6.4 km 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.