LiDAR map of Pyle
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Pyle (Y Pîl), a community in Bridgend, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 25 recorded places here: 14 Coflein records, 6 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 36 m and 84 m above sea level; its highest point is about 129 m.
Pyle 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 Pyle, 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 Pyle. 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 Pyle 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 25 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
- 3.2 km²
- Recorded places
- 25
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 36–84 m above sea level; highest 129 m
- ONS code
- W04000649
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Pen-y-Castell CampScheduled monument
- Pyle Incised StoneScheduled monument
- Bryndu Coke OvensScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Churchyard Cross in St James' churchyard, Pyle
- Church of St James, Pyle with Kenfig
- Morgan monument in St James' churchyard, Pyle
- Kenfig Hill War Memorial
- The Talbot Institute
- Accommodation Bridge over the former Duffryn
Other recorded places
- Westland Lysander II P1719Coflein record
- Pyle InnCoflein record
- Mount Zion English Baptist Chapel , Ffald RoadCoflein record
- Elim Welsh Independent Chapel, Crown Road, KenfigCoflein record
- Pisgah Baptist Chapel, Pisgah Street, Pil,Y; PyleCoflein record
- St David's Calvinistic Methodist Church, WaunCoflein record
- Rehoboth Apostolic Church, Evans Street, PyleCoflein record
- St Joseph of Arimathea Catholic Church, PisgahCoflein record
- Wesley HallCoflein record
- Bethel Mission, Pwllgath Street, Kenfig HillCoflein record
- Air Cadets Hall, Kenfig HillCoflein record
- Kenfig Hill railway stationWikidata place
- Pyle railway stationWikidata place
- Bryndu Coke OvensCoflein record
- Kenfig Hill Cinema, Kenfig HillCoflein record
- Village Farm Industrial Estate, PyleCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Kenfig Castle3.2 km west
- Margam Abbey4.8 km north-west
- Llangynwyd Castle6.3 km north
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.