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LiDAR map of Cyfarthfa
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cyfarthfa, a community in Merthyr Tydfil, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 301 recorded places here: 289 Coflein records, 5 listed buildings, 4 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 202 m and 382 m above sea level; its highest point is about 457 m.
Cyfarthfa 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 Cyfarthfa, 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 Cyfarthfa. 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 Cyfarthfa 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 301 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
- Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
- Area
- 7.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 301
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 202–382 m above sea level; highest 457 m
- ONS code
- W04000714
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Iron Ore Scours and Patch Workings at Winch Fawr, Merthyr TydfilScheduled monument
- Cyfarthfa Canal LevelScheduled monument
- Cwm Glo pit and ironstone tipScheduled monument
- Cyfarthfa Tramroad Section at HeolgerrigScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Cefn Railway Viaduct
- Ynysfach Engine House
- Cefn Railway Viaduct
- Rhydycar Canal Bridge
- NW Ventilation shaft to Morlais Tunnel
Other recorded places
- Pen-yr-Heolgerrig QuarryCoflein record
- Finger Post Cairn GroupCoflein record
- Bryn-y-Badell, CairnCoflein record
- Carn-y-Frwydr Round CairnCoflein record
- Bullring Level BankCoflein record
- Pen-Cae Air ShaftCoflein record
- Coedcae PitCoflein record
- Cwmdu Dwelling Shaft IIICoflein record
- Cwmdu ShaftsCoflein record
- Cwmdu Shaft ICoflein record
- Cwmdu Shaft IICoflein record
- Cwmdu Tramway Shaft ICoflein record
- Heolgerrig Upper Quarry Shaft ICoflein record
- Cwmdu Dwelling Collapsed Shaft ICoflein record
- Cwmdu Dwelling Collapsed Shaft IICoflein record
- Cwmdu Tramway Shaft IICoflein record
- Gelli-Du Air ShaftCoflein record
- Pen-y-Coedcae N Shaft VCoflein record
- Factory Cottage Shaft ICoflein record
- Factory Cottage Shaft IICoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Pont-y-Cafnau1.5 km north-east
- Morlais Castle4.0 km north-east
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown4.0 km south-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.