LiDAR map of Aber
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Aber, a community in Gwynedd, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 98 recorded places here: 68 Coflein records, 21 scheduled monuments, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 listed building. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 22 m and 758 m above sea level; its highest point is about 943 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 7 barrows or cairns, 7 settlements, 1 hillfort and 1 enclosure or other earthwork.
Aber 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 Aber, 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 Aber. 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 Aber 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 98 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
- Gwynedd, Wales
- Area
- 29.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 98
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 22–758 m above sea level; highest 943 m
- ONS code
- W04000041
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Maes y Gaer Camp (Hillfort)Scheduled monument
- Carnedd y Ddelw CairnScheduled monument
- Hut circle East of Afon Rhaeadr FawrScheduled monument
- Hut Circle Settlement on Caer MynyddScheduled monument
- Hut Circles North of Afon AnafonScheduled monument
- Hut Group W of Foel DduarthScheduled monument
- Foel Dduarth EnclosureScheduled monument
- Hut Group 750m SE of Bod SilinScheduled monument
- Carnedd y Saeson & Neighbouring Cairns NW of Foel DduarthScheduled monument
- Meuryn Isaf CairnScheduled monument
- Cras CairnScheduled monument
- Foel Dduarth, cairn to NE ofScheduled monument
- Cras, cairn to N ofScheduled monument
- Settlement Above Ffridd DduScheduled monument
- Hut Circle and Rectangular Hut North of Wern Y PandyScheduled monument
- Hut Group 180m NW of Hafod-y-GelynScheduled monument
- Cras, ring cairn to N ofScheduled monument
- Aber Castle Mound (Pen-y-Mwd)Scheduled monument
- Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement South-East of Bod SilinScheduled monument
- Medieval Homestead 400m SE of Maes y GaerScheduled monument
- Bont-NewyddScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Taylorcraft Auster Vf554Coflein record
- Blackburn Botha I L6202Coflein record
- Heinkel He111 F4801Coflein record
- Aber Railway StationCoflein record
- St Bodfan's Church, AbergwyngregynCoflein record
- Battle of Y Dalar HirWikidata place
- Corn Mill, Aber;AbergwyngregynCoflein record
- Foel Dduarth, Cairn ICoflein record
- Foel Dduarth, Burnt MoundCoflein record
- Hut Circle, Aber ValleyCoflein record
- Cairn, N. of Moel WnionCoflein record
- Cairn, N. of DrosglCoflein record
- Round Hut, E. Bank of The Afon Rhaiadr FawrCoflein record
- Round Huts, E. Side of The Afon Rhaiadr FawrCoflein record
- Round Hut, S Side of The Afon AnafonCoflein record
- Cairns, Anafon Valley, IICoflein record
- Cairns, on A Saddle N. of Hafod GelynCoflein record
- Cairns, Anafon Valley, ICoflein record
- Round Huts, on The S. Side of The Anafon ValleyCoflein record
- Arrow Stone Below Foel- GanolCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Pen y Bryn1.9 km north-west
- Penrhyn Quarry Railway6.2 km south-west
- Beaumaris Castle7.9 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.