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LiDAR map of Pontardawe
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Pontardawe, a community in Neath Port Talbot, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 82 recorded places here: 62 Coflein records, 12 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments, 1 canal structure. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 89 m and 288 m above sea level; its highest point is about 351 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn and 1 henge or standing stone.
Pontardawe 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 Pontardawe, 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 Pontardawe. 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 Pontardawe 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 82 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
- Neath Port Talbot, Wales
- Area
- 31.0 km²
- Recorded places
- 82
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 89–288 m above sea level; highest 351 m
- ONS code
- W04000621
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Burial Chamber Nr Carn LlechartScheduled monument
- Mynydd y Garth CairnScheduled monument
- Carn Llechart Stone CircleScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of Saint Peter
- Saron Old Chapel
- Church of Saint Ciwg
- Gate and gatepiers to Church of St Ciwg
- The Old Tollhouse
- Pont ar Dawe
- Trebannws Multi-Overflow & Outlet Sluice
- Ynysmeudwy Uchaf Overbridge on Swansea Canal
- Nant Du Aqueduct on Swansea Canal
- Ynysmeudwy Ganol Overbridge on Swansea Canal
- Former National Schools
- Ynysmeudwy Isaf Overbridge on Swansea Canal
Other recorded places
- Mynydd Gellionnen CairnCoflein record
- Mynydd Gellionnen CairnCoflein record
- Abernant CollieryCoflein record
- Abernant, CairnCoflein record
- Pontardawe War Memorial, Herbert StreetCoflein record
- Bryn Mawr South, Cairns, RhwyndwyclydachCoflein record
- (Former) Pontardawe Skating RinkCoflein record
- Carn Llechart Cairn CircleCoflein record
- Nant Moel, CairnCoflein record
- Bryn-Chwyth, CairnCoflein record
- Bryn-Chwyth, Ring CairnCoflein record
- Banc John, Ring CairnCoflein record
- Penhydd-Wen, Ring CairnCoflein record
- Mynydd-y-Garth, CairnsCoflein record
- Cwm-Nant-Lleiky, Ring CairnCoflein record
- Cefn Gwryd, Standing StoneCoflein record
- Pontardawe TownCoflein record
- (Former) Pontardawe Recreation GroundCoflein record
- Pontardawe GasometerCoflein record
- Cefn Gwrhyd, CairnsCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Penlle'r Castell5.3 km north-west
- Neath Abbey9.3 km south
- Nidum9.3 km south-east
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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.