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LiDAR map of Aberystwyth
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Aberystwyth, a community in Ceredigion, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 108 recorded places here: 73 Coflein records, 28 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 4 m and 110 m above sea level; its highest point is about 150 m.
Aberystwyth 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 Aberystwyth, 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 Aberystwyth. 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 Aberystwyth 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 108 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
- Ceredigion, Wales
- Area
- 5.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 108
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 4–110 m above sea level; highest 150 m
- ONS code
- W04000359
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Pen Dinas CampScheduled monument
- Aberystwyth Harbour DefencesScheduled monument
- Pen Dinas hill fortAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Aberystwyth Castle
- National Library of Wales
- The Hugh Owen Building
- Railway Station
- University College of Wales Old College Building
- Cerdd Ystwyth Music
- Ceredigion Museum
- Former Assembly Rooms of Music & Drama
- Edward Davies Memorial Chemical Laboratories
- The United Theological College
- Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Pantycelyn, Aberystwyth University
- The Rectory
- Holy Trinity Parish Church
- Plynlymon Hall
- Clarendon Hotel
- Queensbridge Hotel
- Cledwyn Main Building
- Cliff Railway
- Milestone
- Sea Bank Hotel
- Balmoral
and 6 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Penbryn DioddefCoflein record
- PillboxCoflein record
- Pendinas Round BarrowCoflein record
- Pendinas Hillfort, Aberystwyth; Pen DinasCoflein record
- Aberystwyth Gas Works, Park Avenue, AberystwythCoflein record
- Marine Baths, Marine Terrace, AberystwythCoflein record
- Queen's Road English Methodist ChurchCoflein record
- St Mary's College, AberystwythCoflein record
- Rheidol Foundry, Park Avenue. AberystwythCoflein record
- Constitution Hill Pleasure GroundsCoflein record
- Aberystwyth SlaughterhouseCoflein record
- Bridge Street, 12, AberystwythCoflein record
- Tannery, Mill Street, AberystwythCoflein record
- Laundry, Mill Street, AberystwythCoflein record
- Salem Welsh Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Siloam Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Bridge Street, No. 44, AberystwythCoflein record
- Aberystwyth Union Workhouse;BeggarsCoflein record
- Victorian Sewers, AberystwythCoflein record
- Penglais Quarry, AberystwythCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Hen Gaer, Bow Street4.9 km north-east
- Castell Gwallter5.7 km north-east
- Ystrad Peithyll6.4 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.