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LiDAR map of Stockport
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Stockport, Greater Manchester, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 335 recorded places here: 204 listed buildings, 111 places recorded in Wikidata, 12 canal structures, 5 scheduled monuments, 2 registered parks and gardens. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Stockport lies between about 51 m and 178 m above sea level; its highest point is about 328 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 moated sites, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 industrial site.
Stockport 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 Stockport, 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 Stockport. 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 Stockport. 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 Stockport 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 335 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
- 126.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 335
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 51–178 m above sea level; highest 328 m
- ONS code
- E43000161
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Brown Low bowl barrowScheduled monument
- MellorAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Marple aqueductScheduled monument
- Moated site north-west of Broadoak FarmScheduled monument
- Peel MoatScheduled monument
- Oldknow's limekilns, Strines RoadScheduled monument
- Vernon ParkRegistered park or garden
- Cheadle Royal HospitalRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Bramall Hall
- Pear New Mill
- Church of St Martin
- Old Manor Farm
- Chadkirk Chapel
- Town Hall
- Houldsworth Mill
- Houldsworth Working Mens Club
- Houldsworth School
- Plaza Cinema
- War Memorial Art Gallery
- Stockport Railway Viaduct
- Parish Church of St Thomas
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Abney Hall
- Moseley Old Hall
- Church of St George
- Church of St Mary
- Church of St Elisabeth
- Church of Our Lady and the Apostles
- Wear Mill
- Vernon Mill
- High Lane War Memorial
- Christ Church
- Harrytown Hall
- Wybersley Hall
- Wall to the West
- War memorial outside All Saints' Church, Marple
- Gateway to Parish Church of St Mary and Fountain
- Woodbank Villa and Entrance Portico
and 174 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Stockport air disasterWikidata place
- Disley TunnelWikidata place
- Nelstrops Albion Flour MillsWikidata place
- Alexandra HospitalWikidata place
- Middlewood Higher railway stationWikidata place
- Brinksway CavesWikidata place
- Stockport PyramidWikidata place
- Edgeley ParkWikidata place
- Mellor MillWikidata place
- Castle Hill High SchoolWikidata place
- Avro Heritage MuseumWikidata place
- Park Road StadiumWikidata place
- Stockport Savings BankWikidata place
- Broadstone Mill, ReddishWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Marple Aqueduct4.1 km north-east
- Brown Low7.5 km east
- The Bow Stones Anglian cross shafts8.9 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
- Wilmslow
- Styal
- Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley
- Prestbury
- Mottram St. Andrew
- Adlington
- Handforth
- Poynton with Worth
- Disley
- New Mills
- Chisworth
- Tameside
- Manchester
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.