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LiDAR map of Ackworth
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ackworth, a parish in West Yorkshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 29 recorded places here: 14 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 1 Roman inscription. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 28 m and 61 m above sea level; its highest point is about 77 m.
Ackworth 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 Ackworth, 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 Ackworth. 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 Ackworth. 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 5 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Ackworth 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 (5 features in the parish) and the 29 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
- 8.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 29
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 28–61 m above sea level; highest 77 m
- ONS code
- E04013421
Listed buildings
- Ackworth School
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Quaker Meeting House
- Guide Post on Traffic Island at Junction
- The Old Hall
- Lychgate to church of St Cuthbert
- Sikes tomb chest
- The Masons Arms
- Plague Stone at Junction with Sandy Gate Lane
- Lowther Hospital
- Cross Slab
- Guide Post
- Guide Post on Traffic Island at Junction
- Village Cross
Other recorded places
- Ackworth SchoolWikidata place
- Oakfield Park SchoolWikidata place
- Ackworth railway stationWikidata place
- Six ArchesWikidata place
- Low AckworthWikidata place
- Ackworth Moor TopWikidata place
- AckworthWikidata place
- BrackenhillWikidata place
- Ackworth War Memorial, West YorkshireWikidata place
- AckworthRoman inscription
- STONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- OVAL ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- OVAL ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Pontefract Castle5.3 km north-east
- Ferry Bridge8.3 km north-east
- Stanley Ferry Aqueduct10.1 km north-west
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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.