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LiDAR map of New Mills
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of New Mills, a parish in Derbyshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 31 recorded places here: 16 places recorded in Wikidata, 15 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 156 m and 330 m above sea level; its highest point is about 446 m.
New Mills 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 New Mills, 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 New Mills. 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 New Mills. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See New Mills 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 and the 31 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
- Derbyshire, England
- Area
- 21.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 31
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 156–330 m above sea level; highest 446 m
- ONS code
- E04002855
Listed buildings
- Torr Vale Mill, attached weir, sluice gates
- New Mills Free Church
- The New Mills School
- Fox Inn
- Nos 34 and 36
- Footbridge at New Mills Station
- Church of St James the Less
- Church of St George
- Friend's Meeting House
- The George Hotel
- The Hare and Hounds Hotel
- Stone Wall with Plaque in Car Park
- Little Mill Inn
- The Bridge
- Peak Forest Canal Overbridge on Peak Forest Canal
Other recorded places
- River SettWikidata place
- Forest of LymeWikidata place
- Torrs HydroWikidata place
- New Mills Central railway stationWikidata place
- Strines railway stationWikidata place
- Sett Valley TrailWikidata place
- New Mills Urban DistrictWikidata place
- New MillsWikidata place
- Hague BarWikidata place
- GowholeWikidata place
- OllersettWikidata place
- RowarthWikidata place
- WatfordWikidata place
- WhitleWikidata place
- ThornsettWikidata place
- Art TheatreWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Brown Low4.0 km north-west
- Marple Aqueduct5.8 km north-west
- The Bow Stones Anglian cross shafts7.0 km south-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.
Last updated 2026-10-16.