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LiDAR map of Usk
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Usk (Brynbuga), a community in Monmouthshire, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 42 recorded places here: 25 listed buildings, 12 Coflein records, 3 Roman inscriptions, 1 scheduled monument, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 14 m and 54 m above sea level; its highest point is about 89 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 Roman site.
Usk 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 Usk, 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 Usk. 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 Usk 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 42 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
- Monmouthshire, Wales
- Area
- 2.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 42
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 14–54 m above sea level; highest 89 m
- ONS code
- W04000807
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Usk Roman SiteScheduled monument
- BurriumAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Castle House
- Priory Church of St Mary
- Usk Castle and precincts
- The Priory Gatehouse
- Usk Prison
- Olde Malsters
- Usk Bridge
- Porth-y-carn
- Bridge Street, rear wing
- Castle Parade House
- The Sessions House
- The Town Hall
- Henllys
- The Castle Inn
- Ynys Hafod
- Min Yr Afon
- Telephone Call-box
- Church of St Francis Xavier and St David Lewis
- The Greyhound Inn
- Entrance gateway to Porth-y-carn
and 5 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Maryport Street, Sessions House, UskCoflein record
- The Old Grammar School, Maryport Street, UskCoflein record
- AlmshousesCoflein record
- Pwll Melyn, site of Battle, UskCoflein record
- Usk Cricket Ground, Maryport Street, UskCoflein record
- Railway Tunnel, UskCoflein record
- Castle Farm, EarthworkCoflein record
- Maryport Street, 54, Usk;New Court InnCoflein record
- Beech Hill, Garden, UskCoflein record
- Battle of Pwll Melyn Commemorative Plaque, CastleCoflein record
- Willows Nursery, Baron Street, UskCoflein record
- UskRoman inscription
- UskRoman inscription
- UskRoman inscription
Nearest places with their own page
- Burrium230 m west
- Llangibby Castle3.7 km south-west
- Cross at Croes Lwyd6.6 km north
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.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.