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LiDAR map of Abercarn
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Abercarn, a community in Caerphilly, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 40 recorded places here: 26 Coflein records, 8 listed buildings, 5 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 113 m and 397 m above sea level; its highest point is about 460 m.
Abercarn 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 Abercarn, 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 Abercarn. 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 Abercarn 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 40 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
- Caerphilly, Wales
- Area
- 16.5 km²
- Recorded places
- 40
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 113–397 m above sea level; highest 460 m
- ONS code
- W04000725
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Former Dam of Cwmcarn Canal ReservoirScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- English Baptist Church Sunday School
- Church of St Luke
- English Baptist Church and walled forecourt
- Cwmcarn War Memorial and surrounding railings
- Welsh Presbyterian Church
- Abercarn Aqueduct and bridge
- Hall's Bridge, Railway Viaduct over River Ebbw
- Abercarn Aqueduct and Bridge
Other recorded places
- Coal Mine, AbercarnCoflein record
- Lockheed Hudson I N7256Coflein record
- Commercial Road English Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Abercarn colliery disasterWikidata place
- Abercarn Gas WorksCoflein record
- Rhyswg Monastic Grange, AbercarnCoflein record
- Garn Congregational Chapel, High Street, AbercarnCoflein record
- Cae Gorlan Welsh Baptist ChapelCoflein record
- Chapel of EaseCoflein record
- Nazareth ChapelCoflein record
- Central HallCoflein record
- Commercial Road Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Bethesda Calvinistic Methodistchapel, ChurchCoflein record
- Chapel, Park Street, Cwm-CarnCoflein record
- Mynyddyslwyn Rifle Ranges; Mynyddyslwyn ClayCoflein record
- Cwmcarn railway stationWikidata place
- Abercarn railway stationWikidata place
- Abercarn-Uchaf, Garden, AbercarnCoflein record
- Abercarn House, Garden, AbercarnCoflein record
- Bell Inn;Cloch Gobaith Temperance HotelCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Twmbarlwm3.1 km south-east
- Pen-y-fan Pond6.2 km north-west
- Castell Machen6.2 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.