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LiDAR map of Merthyr Mawr
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Merthyr Mawr, a community in Bridgend, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 56 recorded places here: 34 Coflein records, 11 listed buildings, 6 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 9 m and 91 m above sea level; its highest point is about 108 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 church or chapel, 1 barrow or cairn, 1 long barrow or chambered tomb and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Merthyr Mawr 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 Merthyr Mawr, 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 Merthyr Mawr. 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 Merthyr Mawr 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 56 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
- 14.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 56
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 9–91 m above sea level; highest 108 m
- ONS code
- W04000885
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Chapel Hill CampScheduled monument
- Cae Summerhouse CampAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Mynydd TwmpathyddaerAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Mynydd Herbert Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Tythegston Long BarrowScheduled monument
- Vervil DykeScheduled monument
- Cross in Tythegston ChurchyardScheduled monument
- Merthyr Mawr WarrenScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Candleston Castle
- New Inn Bridge
- Tythegston Court
- New Bridge
- Merthyr Mawr House
- South Terrace and Revetment at Merthyr Mawr House
- Greenhouse attached to Kitchen Garden at Merthyr
- The Old School House
- Lower Revetment and steps at Merthyr Mawr House
- Walls to Kitchen Garden at Merthyr Mawr House
- Mile marker
Other recorded places
- Merthyr Mawr SlabCoflein record
- Island Farm Camp, BridgendCoflein record
- Merthyr Mawr SlabCoflein record
- Merthyr Mawr Inscribed StoneCoflein record
- Merthyr Mawr SlabCoflein record
- Merthyr Mawr SlabCoflein record
- Merthyr Mawr SlabCoflein record
- Island Farm Camp: Hut 9, BridgendCoflein record
- Witland BarrowCoflein record
- Candleston Farm EnclosureCoflein record
- Merthyr Mawr Warren, Remains of BuildingCoflein record
- Merthyr Mawr Warren, Remains of RectangularCoflein record
- Pwll-y-Mor, EarthworksCoflein record
- Merthyr MawrCoflein record
- Pwll-y-MorCoflein record
- RAF Stormy DownWikidata place
- Wig Fach Rifle Range 1, Merthyr Mawr WarrenCoflein record
- Newbridge Farm Roman RoadCoflein record
- Merthyr Mawr Sand DunesWikidata place
- Stormy Down Airfield, PorthcawlCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Candleston Castle1.1 km south
- Ogmore Castle1.4 km south-east
- Newcastle Castle3.3 km north-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: 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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.