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LiDAR map of Mossley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Mossley, a parish in Greater Manchester, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 26 recorded places here: 21 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 canal structures, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 146 m and 366 m above sea level; its highest point is about 474 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 motte or ringwork.
Mossley 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 Mossley, 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 Mossley. 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 Mossley. 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 Mossley 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 26 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
- 8.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 26
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 146–366 m above sea level; highest 474 m
- ONS code
- E04000008
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Buckton Castle: a ringwork and site of 17th century beacon 350m north east of Castle FarmScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Former Mossley Town Hall
- Hartshead Pike Tower
- Mossley Cross
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Milestone
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Lock 16w Tail Bridge
- Church of St George
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Lychgate at Church of St George
- Top O' the Green
- War Memorial in Front of Former Town Hall
- Woodend Mill
- Former Collier's Arms Public House
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal Winterford Bridge
- Woodend Toll Bar Cottage
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal Scout Tunnel North
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal Division Bridge
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal Micklehurst Bridge
- Railway underbridge MVL3/10, Manchester Road
- Railway tunnel portal, MVL3/11 Scout Tunnel
- Railway overbridge MVL3/17, Roughtown Road
- Railway overbridge MVL3/20, Wright's Mill
Other recorded places
- Micklehurst railway stationWikidata place
- MossleyWikidata place
- Scout Tunnel North East PortalCanal structure
- Scout Tunnel South West PortalCanal structure
Nearest places with their own page
- Buckton Castle670 m south-east
- Ardotalia7.6 km south
- Mouselow Castle7.9 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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
Last updated 2026-10-16.