Home LiDAR map West Yorkshire Wakefield
LiDAR map of Wakefield
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 276 recorded places here: 140 listed buildings, 91 places recorded in Wikidata, 29 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 scheduled monuments, 4 canal structures. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Wakefield lies between about 18 m and 80 m above sea level; its highest point is about 132 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 mottes or ringworks, 1 barrow or cairn, 1 Roman site and 1 cross.
Wakefield 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 Wakefield, 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 Wakefield. 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 Wakefield. 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 29 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Wakefield 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 (29 features in this area) and the 276 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
- 123.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 276
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 18–80 m above sea level; highest 132 m
- ONS code
- E43000299
Places with their own page
- /places/chantry-bridge/
- /places/sandal-castle/
- /places/stanley-ferry-aqueduct/
- /places/wakefield-castle/
- /places/pontefract-castle/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument
- Ferrybridge Henge, a prehistoric enclosure, and two round barrowsScheduled monument
- Pontefract Castle: part of late Saxon cemetery and town ditch, Norman motte and bailey castle and later medieval enclosure castleScheduled monument
- Roman Bath House, CastlefordScheduled monument
- Boundary cross on the corner of Ferrybridge Road and Stumpcross LaneScheduled monument
- Friarwood Valley GardensRegistered park or garden
- Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden
- St John's PrioryScheduled monument
- LagentiumAncient place (Pleiades)
- Roman Bath House, CastlefordAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Chapel of St Mary
- Town Hall
- Ferry Bridge
- Sandal Castle
- The Hermitage
- Church of St Peter and St Leonard
- Kettlethorpe Hall
- Horbury Hall
- Westgate Unitarian Chapel
- Old Town Hall
- Theatre Royal
- Cathedral Church of All Saints
- County Hall
- York House
- Crown Court House
- Austin House
- Wakefield Bridge
- Town Hall
- Old Town Hall
- Market Hall
- Ferrybridge War Memorial
- Church of St Giles
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Church of All Saints
- The Malt Shovel Public House
- Former City Museum
- Old Cathedral Grammar School
- Town Hall
- Church of St Joseph
- Church of St Helen
and 110 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- HM Prison WakefieldWikidata place
- Battle of WakefieldWikidata place
- Battle of FerrybridgeWikidata place
- Pontefract PrioryWikidata place
- Lofthouse Colliery disasterWikidata place
- Wheldale CollieryWikidata place
- Prince of Wales CollieryWikidata place
- Micklegate Methodist Church, PontefractWikidata place
- Trinity Methodist Church, CastlefordWikidata place
- Ferrybridge servicesWikidata place
- Castleford Civic CentreWikidata place
- Outwood Grange Academies TrustWikidata place
- Albion Mills Retail ParkWikidata place
- Fieldhead HospitalWikidata place
- Wakefield City AcademyWikidata place
- Belle VueWikidata place
- Pinderfields HospitalWikidata place
- Castleford, Normanton and District HospitalWikidata place
- CCE WakefieldWikidata place
- ABC Cinema, WakefieldWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Wakefield Castle2.2 km south-east
- Chantry Bridge3.1 km east
- Sandal Castle4.0 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Cridling Stubbs
- Beal
- Darrington
- Byram cum Sutton
- Brotherton
- Fairburn
- Ledsham
- Birkin
- Kirklees
- Sitlington
- Havercroft with Cold Hiendley
- Ryhill
- Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell
- Crofton
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.
- Plaques: Open Plaques, public domain.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.