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LiDAR map of Rossendale
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rossendale, Lancashire, at one metre per pixel: the part of the area that lies outside any civil parish. The heritage records hold 153 recorded places here: 94 listed buildings, 59 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in Rossendale lies between about 203 m and 385 m above sea level; its highest point is about 477 m.
Rossendale 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 Rossendale, 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 Rossendale. 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 Rossendale. 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 Rossendale 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 153 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
- Lancashire, England
- Area
- 119.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 153
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 203–385 m above sea level; highest 477 m
- ONS code
- E43000099
Listed buildings
- Rawtenstall Cenotaph
- Crawshaw Hall
- Higher Mill Museum
- Crawshawbooth War Memorial
- Christ Church
- Ilex Mill
- Stacksteads Mill
- Church of St Nicholas with St John
- Broadclough Hall
- Stubbylee Hall
- Harrier Hound Monument to Methusalah Yates
- Broadclough Mill
- Britannia Mill
- Old Baptist Chapel
- Carter Place Hall
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Edenfield Parish Church
- Crawshawbooth Quaker Meeting House
- Grane Mill, Haslingden
- Longholme Methodist Church
- Ewood Hall
- Waggoner Tunstead Farmhouse
- The Laurels
- Tower in Grounds of Sunnyside C100 Metres
- Well Known As the Spewing Duck
- Church of St James the Great
- Church of St Paul
- Church of St Thomas
- Methodist Church
- Church of St Mary
and 64 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Rawtenstall Town HallWikidata place
- Rossendale ForestWikidata place
- Scout Moor Wind FarmWikidata place
- Whitewell BrookWikidata place
- River HyndburnWikidata place
- Alden ValleyWikidata place
- Calf Hey ReservoirWikidata place
- Cheesden ValleyWikidata place
- Hail Storm HillWikidata place
- Haslingden High SchoolWikidata place
- Rossendale General HospitalWikidata place
- Lee QuarryWikidata place
- Musbury TorWikidata place
- Musbury ValleyWikidata place
- River OgdenWikidata place
- Rossendale ValleyWikidata place
- Irwell Vale railway stationWikidata place
- Pilgrims Cross, Holcombe MoorWikidata place
- Baxenden railway stationWikidata place
- Britannia railway stationWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Castlesteads8.4 km south
- Bury Castle10.5 km south
- Cheetham Close10.9 km south-west
Neighbouring parishes
- Bury
- Dunnockshaw
- Habergham Eaves
- Hapton
- North Turton
- Yate and Pickup Bank
- Hyndburn
- Rochdale
- Whitworth
- Todmorden
- Cliviger
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.