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LiDAR map of Rochdale
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 282 recorded places here: 161 listed buildings, 112 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 registered parks and gardens, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 canal structures. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Rochdale lies between about 113 m and 359 m above sea level; its highest point is about 475 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 industrial site and 1 bridge.
Rochdale 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 Rochdale, 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 Rochdale. 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 Rochdale. 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 Rochdale 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 282 recorded places in this area, 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
- 158.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 282
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 113–359 m above sea level; highest 475 m
- ONS code
- E43000159
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ellenroad Ring MillScheduled monument
- Falinge ParkRegistered park or garden
- Broadfield ParkRegistered park or garden
- Queen's Park, RochdaleRegistered park or garden
- March Barn Bridge, Rochdale CanalScheduled monument
- Rochdale CemeteryRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Church of St Mary-in-the-Baum, St Mary's Gate
- Rochdale Cenotaph
- Town Hall
- Church of Saint Aidan
- Elm Street School
- Ye Olde Boars Head Public House
- Hope Chapel and Parsons House Parson's House
- Hopwood Hall
- Tonge Hall
- Long Street Methodist Church Long Street
- Windy Bank
- Stubley Old Hall
- Rough Bank Farmhouse
- Church of Saint Luke
- Former Queen Elizabeth Old Grammar School
- Old Bent House and Bent House Farmhouse
- Church of Saint Edmund
- Shore Hall
- Dearnley Old Hall
- Birchinley Manor Farmhouse
- Church of St Leonard
- Roman Catholic Church of St John the Baptist
- St John's Church War Memorial, Smallbridge
- Crimble Mill: mill chimney
- Church of Saint James
- Birchinley Hall Farmhouse
- Heybrook Mill
- Institute for the Deaf, 23 Church Lane, Rochdale
- Rochdale Canal Branch Arm Halfpenny Bridge
- Church of Saint Chad
and 131 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Rochdale CastleWikidata place
- HM Prison Buckley HallWikidata place
- Harp Mill, CastletonWikidata place
- Moss BrookWikidata place
- Wrigley BrookWikidata place
- Ebenezer CottageWikidata place
- Butterworth Hall BrookWikidata place
- Rochdale power stationWikidata place
- British Cactus and Succulent SocietyWikidata place
- Hey BrookWikidata place
- River BealWikidata place
- Whittaker WoodWikidata place
- Birch servicesWikidata place
- Kingsway Business ParkWikidata place
- Greenbooth ReservoirWikidata place
- Middleton CemeteryWikidata place
- Rochdale InfirmaryWikidata place
- Hollingworth LakeWikidata place
- Arkwright Mill, RochdaleWikidata place
- Ash BrookWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Bury Castle10.0 km west
- Castlesteads10.6 km west
- Radcliffe Tower11.7 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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.