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LiDAR map of Bethesda
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bethesda, a community in Gwynedd, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 37 recorded places here: 20 Coflein records, 12 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 140 m and 263 m above sea level; its highest point is about 323 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 settlement.
Bethesda 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 Bethesda, 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 Bethesda. 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 Bethesda 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 37 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
- 3.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 37
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 140–263 m above sea level; highest 323 m
- ONS code
- W04000049
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Pen y Gaer, Cilfodan, BethesdaAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Hut Circle Settlement at Ffos CoetmorScheduled monument
- Ty'n TwrScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Capel Jerusalem
- Capel Bethesda
- Capel Bethania
- The Victoria Hotel
- The King's Head Inn
- Telford Milestone
- Pont y Gaseg
- Christ Church
- The Douglas Arms Hotel
- Pont Abercaseg
- Telford Milestone
- Pont y Goetmor
Other recorded places
- Vickers Wellington II W5494Coflein record
- Bethesda StationCoflein record
- Pant Dreiniog Slate QuarryCoflein record
- Bethesda CemeteryCoflein record
- Carmel Welsh Independent Chapel, Cefn CarmelCoflein record
- Salem Independent Chapel, Ffordd CarneddiCoflein record
- Treflys Independent Chapel, GerlanCoflein record
- Bethel Welsh Baptist Church, CaellwyngruddCoflein record
- Brynteg Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, BryntegCoflein record
- Carneddi Calvinistic Methodist Chapel , BethesdaCoflein record
- Gerlan ChapelCoflein record
- Pantdreiniog Calvinist Methodist Sunday SchoolCoflein record
- Salem Wesleyan Methodistchapel, CaellwyngruddCoflein record
- Cwm CasegWikidata place
- Ysgol Dyffryn OgwenWikidata place
- Cloverly Lodge, Garden, CraigsideCoflein record
- Coetmore Hall, Garden, BethesdaCoflein record
- Coetmore Mount, Garden, BethesdaCoflein record
- Moel Faban Slate QuarriesCoflein record
- Dolgoch Slate Quarry, Ogwen ValleyCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Penrhyn Quarry Railway2.0 km north-west
- Pen y Bryn6.5 km north-east
- Dinorwic Quarry7.3 km south
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.