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LiDAR map of Rainow
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rainow, a parish in Cheshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 75 recorded places here: 44 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 22 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 223 m and 392 m above sea level; its highest point is about 554 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 barrows or cairns and 1 henge or standing stone.
Rainow 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 Rainow, 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 Rainow. 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 Rainow. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. The records hold 44 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Rainow 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 (44 features in the parish) and the 75 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
- Cheshire, England
- Area
- 23.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 75
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 223–392 m above sea level; highest 554 m
- ONS code
- E04010997
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Standing stone at Ginclough 400m WSW of Gin Clough FarmScheduled monument
- Yearn's Low bowl barrowScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 100m west of Black Rock FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow 160m south of Blue Boar FarmScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow at Ox CloseScheduled monument
- Bowl barrow at Charles HeadScheduled monument
- Mellor's GardensRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Conference Hall at Ingersley Hall
- Rainow Bridge
- Charles Head House
- Sowcar Farmhouse
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Rainow War Memorial Cross and Seat
- The Stocks
- Gin Clough Mill
- The Mill House
- Weir at North End of Clough Pool
- Weir and Bridge by Wayside Cottage
- Parish Boundary Stone
- Parish Boundary Stone
- Inscribed stone on Andrew's Edge, Saltersford
- Boundary Stone
- Parish Boundary Stone
- Parish Boundary Stone
- Parish Boundary Stone
- Milestone
- Milestone
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Kerridge HillWikidata place
- RainowWikidata place
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- STRUCTUREAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- COAL MINING SITEAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- BOWL BARROWAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- SHAFTAerial survey feature
- ADITAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
- DAMAerial survey feature
- SHAFT MOUNDAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- The Bow Stones Anglian cross shafts5.1 km north
- Lismore Fields Mesolithic and Neolithic settlement8.7 km east
- The Bull Ring11.2 km east
Neighbouring parishes
- Macclesfield
- Higher Hurdsfield
- Hartington upper Quarter
- Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough
- Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley
- Bollington
- Pott Shrigley
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.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.