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LiDAR map of Darran Valley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Darran Valley (Cwm Darran), a community in Caerphilly, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 142 recorded places here: 130 Coflein records, 6 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 275 m and 412 m above sea level; its highest point is about 462 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Darran 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 Darran 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 Darran 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 Darran 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 142 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
- 19.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 142
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 275–412 m above sea level; highest 462 m
- ONS code
- W04000735
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Site of Tegernacus StoneScheduled monument
- Cairn 270m N of Pont FfosyrhebogScheduled monument
- Dyke 387m E of Clawdd Trawscae FarmScheduled monument
- Pant Ffos-yr-hebog Cup-Marked StoneScheduled monument
- Capel GwladysScheduled monument
- Rhaslas Pond South DamScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Cefn-y-Brithdir, Cairn IICoflein record
- Fochriw CollieryCoflein record
- Fochrhiw PitsCoflein record
- Cwm Bargoed, Military HutsCoflein record
- Darran and Deri StationCoflein record
- Fochriw, DamCoflein record
- Mynydd Fochriw, Ring CairnCoflein record
- Cefn-y-Brithdir, S CairnCoflein record
- Pant Ffosyrhebog, Burnt MoundCoflein record
- Mynydd Fochriw, Cairn IICoflein record
- Mynydd Fochriw, Marker StoneCoflein record
- Fochriw VillageCoflein record
- Gelli Gaer Common, Ditch ICoflein record
- Tunnel Pits, Bank E of..Coflein record
- Cefn y Brithdir Aviation BeaconCoflein record
- Fforest Gwladys, Gelligaer, Roman Practice WorkCoflein record
- Fforest Gwladys, Gelligaer, Possible RomanCoflein record
- Fochriw VillageCoflein record
- Rhaslas Pit: Air ShaftCoflein record
- Tunnel Pits, North ShaftCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery5.2 km north-east
- Tredegar Ironworks7.7 km north
- Pen-y-fan Pond8.4 km 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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.