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LiDAR map of Merthyr Tydfil
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Merthyr Tydfil at one metre per pixel, with the 1,481 recorded historic places the heritage records hold here, the Roman roads and the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1843–1913 over the same ground. Free, in a browser.
Places on the LiDAR in Merthyr Tydfil
Each page shows the site on the LiDAR with its record, its location and the recorded places around it.
- Morlais CastleHillfort
- Pont-y-CafnauBridge
LiDAR maps of the communities of Merthyr Tydfil
One page for each of the 12 communities, with a LiDAR picture and the recorded places inside it.
- Bedlinog77 recorded places
- Cyfarthfa301 recorded places
- Dowlais58 recorded places
- Gurnos8 recorded places
- Merthyr Vale108 recorded places
- Pant36 recorded places
- Park43 recorded places
- Penydarren11 recorded places
- Town178 recorded places
- Treharris46 recorded places
- Troed-y-rhiw300 recorded places
- Vaynor313 recorded places
About the LiDAR
The terrain model is made from an airborne laser survey with vegetation and buildings removed, so earthworks show as height: hillfort ramparts, barrows, Roman road banks, hollow ways and ridge and furrow. In the app the picture is computed as you change the settings, with a moveable sun, a local relief model, multidirectional hillshading and the VAT composite. See how to read a LiDAR map and what archaeology looks like on LiDAR.
Sources
- LiDAR: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
Last updated 2026-10-16.