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LiDAR map of Penylan
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Penylan (Pen-y-lan), a community in Cardiff, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 10 Coflein records, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 listed buildings, 1 scheduled monument. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 8 m and 55 m above sea level; its highest point is about 65 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site.
Penylan 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 Penylan, 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 Penylan. 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 Penylan 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 24 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
- 3.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 8–55 m above sea level; highest 65 m
- ONS code
- W04000860
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Pen y lan Roman SiteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Pen-y-Lan Court, Garden, RoathCoflein record
- Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern; St Teilo's ChurchCoflein record
- St Edward's ChurchWikidata place
- Albany Road Baptist ChurchWikidata place
- Parkminster United Reformed Church, RoathWikidata place
- Cardiff power stationsWikidata place
- St David's Catholic CollegeWikidata place
- Cardiff United SynagogueWikidata place
- Pen-y-Lan Synagogue, Pen-y-LanCoflein record
- Cardiff International Academy of VoiceWikidata place
- Tal-y-Werydd;Ty-Gwyn Court, Garden, RoathCoflein record
- Greenlawn, Garden, RoathCoflein record
- Bronwydd, Garden, RoathCoflein record
- Mess Room, Roath Mill GardensCoflein record
- Harlequins Recreation Ground, CardiffCoflein record
- Cardiff CentralWikidata place
- CardiffWikidata place
- PenylanWikidata place
- Waterloo Gardens, Roath Mill Gardens and RoathCoflein record
- Penylan Bowling Green, Marlborough Road, RoathCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Cardiff Castle2.7 km south-west
- Caer Castell3.2 km north-east
- Bishop's Palace4.4 km 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.