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LiDAR map of Wigan
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wigan, Greater Manchester, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 344 recorded places here: 166 listed buildings, 164 places recorded in Wikidata, 8 scheduled monuments, 4 canal structures, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Wigan lies between about 22 m and 93 m above sea level; its highest point is about 170 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 moated sites, 3 crosses and 1 industrial site.
Wigan 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 Wigan, 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 Wigan. 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 Wigan. 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 Wigan 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 344 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
- 170.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 344
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 22–93 m above sea level; highest 170 m
- ONS code
- E43000164
Places with their own page
- /places/new-hall-moated-site/
- /places/mab-s-cross/
- /places/morleys-hall/
- /places/gidlow-hall-moated-site/
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Morley's Hall moated siteScheduled monument
- New Hall Moat, Astley, 200m north of Astley HospitalScheduled monument
- Astley Green Colliery: engine house and headgearScheduled monument
- Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, StandishScheduled monument
- Cross base at the junction of Standish Green Lane, Standish Wood Lane and Beech Walk, 200m NNW of Strickland House Farm, StandishScheduled monument
- Mesnes ParkRegistered park or garden
- Cross base on Standish Wood Lane 700m south east of Standish HallScheduled monument
- Gidlow Hall moated site, Aspull, 560m NNE of Pennington HallScheduled monument
- Winstanley moated site and five fishpondsScheduled monument
- Coccium?Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Bispham Hall
- Chowbent Unitarian Chapel
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Church of St Michael
- Mabs Cross
- Kirkless Hall and Kirkless Hall Farmhouse
- Alder House
- Light Oaks Hall
- Ackhurst Hall
- Lightshaw Hall
- Giant's Hall Farmhouse
- Winstanley Hall
- Chanters Farmhouse
- Astley Vicarage
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Roman Catholic Church of St Oswald and St Edmund
- Christ Church
- Christ Church
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church
- Tyldesley Chapel
- Leigh Town Hall
- Trencherfield Mill
- Church of St Peter
- Church of St Mary
- Church of St Matthew
- Church of St James with St Thomas
- Church of St Mary
- Garrett Hall
- Former Bradley Hall Public
- Leigh Mill
and 136 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- HM Prison HindleyWikidata place
- Maypole Colliery disasterWikidata place
- Bedford Colliery DisasterWikidata place
- Bedford CollieryWikidata place
- Bickershaw CollieryWikidata place
- Bryn Hall CollieryWikidata place
- Chanters CollieryWikidata place
- Cleworth Hall CollieryWikidata place
- Combermere CollieryWikidata place
- Gibfield CollieryWikidata place
- Gin Pit CollieryWikidata place
- Great Boys CollieryWikidata place
- Howe Bridge CollieryWikidata place
- New Lester CollieryWikidata place
- Nook CollieryWikidata place
- Parsonage CollieryWikidata place
- Peelwood CollieryWikidata place
- Shakerley CollieryWikidata place
- St George's CollieryWikidata place
- Yew Tree CollieryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Gidlow Hall moated site4.9 km north
- Mab's Cross5.5 km north-west
- Morleys Hall7.4 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Salford
- Bolton
- St. Helens
- Seneley Green
- Billinge Chapel End
- Haigh
- Croft
- Culcheth and Glazebury
- Westhoughton
- Blackrod
- Up Holland
- Rainford
- Shevington
- Worthington
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.