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LiDAR map of Silpho
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Silpho, a parish in North Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 15 recorded places here: 8 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 6 scheduled monuments, 1 listed building. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 136 m and 196 m above sea level; its highest point is about 221 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 barrows or cairns.
Silpho 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 Silpho, 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 Silpho. 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 Silpho. 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 8 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Silpho 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 (8 features in the parish) and the 15 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
- North Yorkshire, England
- Area
- 4.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 15
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 136–196 m above sea level; highest 221 m
- ONS code
- E04007698
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round cairn on Hunter Noddle 760m north west of WhisperdalesScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Silpho Moor 780m NNE WhisperdalesScheduled monument
- Round barrow on Silpho Moor 710m north of WhisperdalesScheduled monument
- Square barrow on Silpho Moor 680m SSE of BreckenhurstScheduled monument
- Square barrow on Silpho Moor 730m south east of BreckenhurstScheduled monument
- Round barrow 920m south west of Silpho Brow FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- CAIRNAerial survey feature
- ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
- SQUARE BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Scarborough Castle8.9 km east
- Bent Rigg radar station9.1 km north
- Star Carr12.7 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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.