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LiDAR map of Shaw and Crompton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Shaw and Crompton, a parish in Greater Manchester, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 23 recorded places here: 17 places recorded in Wikidata, 6 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 175 m and 338 m above sea level; its highest point is about 398 m.
Shaw and Crompton 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 Shaw and Crompton, 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 Shaw and Crompton. 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 Shaw and Crompton. 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 Shaw and Crompton 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 23 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
- 12.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 23
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 175–338 m above sea level; highest 398 m
- ONS code
- E04012153
Listed buildings
- Crompton War Memorial
- Church of St James
- Lychgate at Holy Trinity Church
- Saint Paul's Methodist Chapel and Sunday School
- Holy Trinity Church
- Former Cross Shaft in Graveyard of Holy Trinity
Other recorded places
- Dawn Mill, ShawWikidata place
- Newby Mill, ShawWikidata place
- Hawk Mill, ShawWikidata place
- Rutland MillWikidata place
- Shaw and Crompton tram stopWikidata place
- High CromptonWikidata place
- Crompton MoorWikidata place
- Brushes Clough ReservoirWikidata place
- Old BrookWikidata place
- Pencil BrookWikidata place
- Trent MillWikidata place
- Shaw and Crompton railway stationWikidata place
- Shaw and CromptonWikidata place
- Crompton HallWikidata place
- Crompton Urban DistrictWikidata place
- Shaw National Distribution CentreWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Buckton Castle9.2 km south-east
- Clayton Hall12.6 km south-west
- Bury Castle13.9 km 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.