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LiDAR map of Blackrod
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Blackrod, a parish in Greater Manchester, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 15 recorded places here: 8 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument, 1 canal structure. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 94 m and 147 m above sea level; its highest point is about 163 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 moated site.
Blackrod 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 Blackrod, 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 Blackrod. 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 Blackrod. 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 Blackrod 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 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
- Greater Manchester, England
- Area
- 8.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 15
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 94–147 m above sea level; highest 163 m
- ONS code
- E04000001
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Moated site at Arley Hall, Haigh near WiganScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Blackrod War Memorial
- Church of St Katharine
- Georgian House Hotel
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Waterhouse Bridge
- Leeds Liverpool Canal, Canal Aqueduct Over River
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Anderton Bridge
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Aqueduct Over River
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Aberdeen Bridge
Other recorded places
- Blackrod Castle CroftWikidata place
- Rivington Water Treatment WorksWikidata place
- Blackrod railway stationWikidata place
- Blackrod Urban DistrictWikidata place
- BlackrodWikidata place
- Aqueduct 19, Red HouseCanal structure
Nearest places with their own page
- Gidlow Hall moated site3.9 km south
- Mab's Cross5.1 km south-west
- Pikestones6.7 km north
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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.