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LiDAR map of Sunk Island
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Sunk Island, a parish in East Riding of Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 18 recorded places here: 13 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 3 listed buildings, 1 scheduled monument, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 2 m and 3 m above sea level; its highest point is about 6 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 military site.
Sunk Island 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 Sunk Island, 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 Sunk Island. 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 Sunk Island. 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 13 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Sunk Island 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 (13 features in the parish) and the 18 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
- East Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 30.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 18
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 2–3 m above sea level; highest 6 m
- ONS code
- E04000482
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Stone Creek Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, at Sunk Island CloughScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- RAF PatringtonWikidata place
- BUILDING PLATFORMAerial survey feature
- SALTERNAerial survey feature
- DITCH\ENCLOSURE\MOUNDAerial survey feature
- HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERYAerial survey feature
- COASTAL BATTERYAerial survey feature
- DRAINAGE DITCH\PALAEOCHANNELAerial survey feature
- MILITARY BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- MILITARY INSTALLATIONAerial survey feature
- HUT CIRCLEAerial survey feature
- BUILDING\ROBBER TRENCHAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- EMBANKMENTAerial survey feature
- SIGNAL TOWERAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Easington Tithe Barn11.5 km east
- Ravenspurn Cross13.4 km north-west
- Humberston Abbey14.0 km south
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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.