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LiDAR map of Westhoughton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Westhoughton, a parish in Greater Manchester, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 19 recorded places here: 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 9 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 62 m and 125 m above sea level; its highest point is about 146 m.
Westhoughton 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 Westhoughton, 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 Westhoughton. 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 Westhoughton. 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 Westhoughton 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 19 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
- 17.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 19
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 62–125 m above sea level; highest 146 m
- ONS code
- E04000003
Listed buildings
- Church of St James
- Sundial Approx 17m
- White Lion public house
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Tower of Church of St Bartholomew
- Memorial to Those Killed in the Pretoria Pit
- Westhoughton Church of England Primary School
- Westhoughton War Memorial
and 1 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Westhoughton High SchoolWikidata place
- Daisy Hill railway stationWikidata place
- Westhoughton railway stationWikidata place
- Chequerbent railway stationWikidata place
- Daisy HillWikidata place
- Hart CommonWikidata place
- Westhoughton Urban DistrictWikidata place
- WesthoughtonWikidata place
- WingatesWikidata place
- Dicconson Lane and Aspull railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Gidlow Hall moated site2.7 km west
- Mab's Cross6.5 km west
- New Hall moated site7.0 km south-east
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.