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LiDAR map of Garw Valley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Garw Valley (Cwm Garw), a community in Bridgend, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 204 recorded places here: 180 Coflein records, 11 listed buildings, 9 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 102 m and 416 m above sea level; its highest point is about 568 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 4 barrows or cairns.
Garw Valley 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: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Garw Valley, 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 Garw Valley. 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
See Garw Valley 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 and the 204 recorded places in the community, 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
- Bridgend, Wales
- Area
- 30.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 204
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 102–416 m above sea level; highest 568 m
- ONS code
- W04000636
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Croes y Bwlchgwyn Round CairnScheduled monument
- Round Barrow on the WerfaScheduled monument
- Cairn LwydScheduled monument
- Round Cairn 567m East of Bryn DefaidScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St David, Bettws
- Church of St Cein
- Mortuary Chapel
- Bethania Capel y Bedyddwyr
- Tabernacl Capel yr Annibynwyr
- Monument to Benjamin and Elizabeth Noyle
- Pont-y-rhyd-ddu
- Pontycymer Cemetery Entrance
- Former Cooperative Bakery
- Ffaldau Workmen's Institute
- Small Tramroad bridge over Nant Cedfyw, Shwt
Other recorded places
- Blaengarw CollieryCoflein record
- Ffaldau Colliery, PontycymmerCoflein record
- Pontycymer, Public HouseCoflein record
- Bryngarw Park, BridgendCoflein record
- Blaengarw PitCoflein record
- Blaengarw StationCoflein record
- Mynydd Llangeinwyr, Stone MoundCoflein record
- Pant Blaenhirwr, Cairn IICoflein record
- Mynydd LlangeinorCoflein record
- Moel Garn, LlangeinwyrWikidata place
- Nant HirCoflein record
- Mynydd Llangeinwyr, site of Alleged BattleCoflein record
- Pen y Foel, Bank ICoflein record
- Pen y Foel, Bank IIICoflein record
- Pen y Foel, Bank IVCoflein record
- Pen y Foel, Bank IICoflein record
- Pant Blaenhirwr, BankCoflein record
- Mynydd Llangeinwyr, BankCoflein record
- Bryn y Wrach, Bank ICoflein record
- Blaen Garw, CairnfieldCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Llangynwyd Castle5.4 km west
- Coity Castle8.8 km south
- Newcastle Castle10.0 km south
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: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m 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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.