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LiDAR map of Manchester
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Manchester, Greater Manchester, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 793 recorded places here: 469 listed buildings, 307 places recorded in Wikidata, 7 registered parks and gardens, 3 scheduled monuments, 3 canal structures. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Manchester lies between about 30 m and 86 m above sea level; its highest point is about 114 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 moated sites.
Manchester 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 Manchester, 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 Manchester. 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 Manchester. 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 Manchester 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 793 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
- 109.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 793
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 30–86 m above sea level; highest 114 m
- ONS code
- E43000157
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Clayton Hall moated siteScheduled monument
- Peel Hall moated siteScheduled monument
- Manchester Southern CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Section of an early medieval boundary ditch known as the Nico Ditch in Platt Fields 480m SSE of Platt HallScheduled monument
- Wythenshawe ParkRegistered park or garden
- Alexandra Park, ManchesterRegistered park or garden
- Queen's Park, ManchesterRegistered park or garden
- Philips Park CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Manchester General CemeteryRegistered park or garden
- Philips ParkRegistered park or garden
- ‘Mamucio’Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Name of Jesus
- Albert Memorial
- Old Warehouse
- Former Liverpool Road Railway Station Station
- Baguley Hall
- Town Hall Extension
- Town Hall
- Lawrence Buildings
- Central Public Library
- Manchester Art Gallery
- Heaton Hall
- Anglican Church of St Benedict
- Church of St George
- Church of St Nicholas
- Church of St Peter
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Wythenshawe Hall
- Church of St Cross
- Victoria Mill
- Dale Warehouse
- Manchester Jewish Museum
- Manchester Law Library
- Student Health Centre, University of Manchester
- Hope Mill
- Memorial Hall
- Former National Westminster Bank on Corner
- The Athenaeum
- Midland Hotel
- Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building
- Victoria University of Manchester
and 439 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Manchester CastleWikidata place
- Co-op LiveWikidata place
- Parklife FestivalWikidata place
- Ardwick Green BarracksWikidata place
- Manchester PrideWikidata place
- Clash at the Consulate General of ChinaWikidata place
- British European Airways Flight 411Wikidata place
- Manchester MartyrsWikidata place
- Belle Vue GaolWikidata place
- Moss Side mass shootingWikidata place
- Hexagon TowerWikidata place
- Bradford CollieryWikidata place
- Manchester Institute of Innovation ResearchWikidata place
- Renold BuildingWikidata place
- Clayton ValeWikidata place
- Debdale ParkWikidata place
- Heaton Park BT TowerWikidata place
- Irk Valley Junction rail crashWikidata place
- Longsight Free Christian ChurchWikidata place
- Holy Trinity, HulmeWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Hanging Bridge1.8 km north-west
- Clayton Hall3.8 km north-east
- Radcliffe Tower11.6 km north-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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.