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LiDAR map of Butetown
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Butetown, a community in Cardiff, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 136 recorded places here: 75 Coflein records, 43 listed buildings, 15 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 4 m and 11 m above sea level; its highest point is about 31 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 military sites.
Butetown 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 Butetown, 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 Butetown. 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
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The full map lays the LiDAR under the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1843–1913, the Roman road network and the 136 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
- Cardiff, Wales
- Area
- 6.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 136
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–11 m above sea level; highest 31 m
- ONS code
- W04000838
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Four Palmerstonian Gun Batteries, Flat HolmScheduled monument
- Queen Alexandra Dock Harbour Defence Gun EmplacementScheduled monument
- Flat Holm Coastal and Anti-aircraft DefencesScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Pier Head Building
- Empire House
- Norwegian Church Arts Centre
- Cardiff Exchange Building
- Cardiff Bay Station
- Ocean Building
- Meandros House
- Cory's Building
- Aberdare House
- Flat Holm Lighthouse
- Central Station
- Statue of Second Marquess of Bute
- Coptic House
- Marine House
- Mount Stuart House
- Bridge over Dock Feeder Canal
- Bridge over Dock Feeder Canal
- Pascoe House
- Phoenix Buildings
- St Line House
- Cambrian Buildings
- Cymric Buildings
- National Westminster Bank
- Bonded Warehouse
- Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.3
- Bute West Dock Basin
- Warehouse
- Former H.M.Immigration Office
- Marquess of Bute's Warehouse
- Premises occupied by Jacob's Antique Market
and 13 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Roath Basin, Cardiff DocksCoflein record
- Bute Dock Brewery, Butetown, CardiffCoflein record
- Cardiff HeliportCoflein record
- Cardiff BayCoflein record
- Peat Deposits, Cardiff DocksCoflein record
- murder of Lynette WhiteWikidata place
- Royal Hamadryad Hospital, Hamadryad RoadCoflein record
- Welsh Industrial & Maritime MuseumCoflein record
- Bute West Dock, CardiffCoflein record
- Roath Dock, Cardiff DocksCoflein record
- The St David's HotelCoflein record
- Bute Iron Works, Butetown, CardiffCoflein record
- Mount Stuart Primary SchoolCoflein record
- Hamadryad ParkCoflein record
- Cardiff FlatsCoflein record
- Cardiff Power Signal BoxCoflein record
- Clarence Embankment Wharves, Cardiff DockCoflein record
- Bethel Congregational Chapel, Pomeroy StreetCoflein record
- Bethania Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ChapelCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Cardiff Castle2.7 km north-west
- Old Leckwith Bridge3.8 km west
- Bishop's Palace5.4 km north-west
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.