LiDAR map of Caersws
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Caersws (Caersŵs), a community in Powys, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 95 recorded places here: 54 Coflein records, 16 scheduled monuments, 13 listed buildings, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 Atlas of Hillforts entries. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 124 m and 392 m above sea level; its highest point is about 484 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 6 Roman sites, 6 barrows or cairns and 1 henge or standing stone.
Caersws 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 Caersws, 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 Caersws. 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 Caersws 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 95 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
- Powys, Wales
- Area
- 44.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 95
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 124–392 m above sea level; highest 484 m
- ONS code
- W04000259
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Wyle Cop Camp, CaerswsAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Carreg Hir Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Caersws Roman Fort: Section of South Western DefencesScheduled monument
- Craig y Llyn Mawr Round CairnScheduled monument
- Round Hut 700m NNE of Garreg HirScheduled monument
- Round Hut 400m NE of Garreg HirScheduled monument
- Llyn y Tarw CairnScheduled monument
- Caersws Roman SiteScheduled monument
- Gwyn Fynydd CampScheduled monument
- Ring Cairn 540m SW of Llyn y TarwScheduled monument
- Roman Earthwork NE of Caersws (revealed by aerial photography)Scheduled monument
- Lluest Uchaf Cairns and Stone RowScheduled monument
- Craig y Llyn Mawr platform cairn and standing stoneScheduled monument
- Ystrad Faelog HillortAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Caersws Roman Fort and Vicus: section in SE part of vicusScheduled monument
- Caersws Roman Fort and Vicus: section in southern part of vicusScheduled monument
- Nant Cwm Gerwyn CairnsScheduled monument
- Caersws Roman roadScheduled monument
- CaerswsAncient place (Pleiades)
- Llwyn-y-BrainAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Maesmawr Hall Hotel
- Plasau duon
- Church of St Gwynog/Cynog
- Ty Coch house, sawmill, carpenters’ workshop
- Pont-dol-goch Station and Stationmaster's House
- Telephone Call-box
- Capel Saron MC with Caretaker's House
- Caersws bridge
- Rhydlydan Mill
- Wig Bridge
- Milestone W of village
- Milestone outside Aelbryn
- Milestone
Other recorded places
- Graig Orddle;GraigorddleCoflein record
- Ystrad Faelog HillCoflein record
- Graigorddle;Graig Orddle, Possible CultivationCoflein record
- Hillfort, Ty-Gwyn, E.N.E of CarnoCoflein record
- Union Workhouse, Caersws; Llys Maldwyn HospitalCoflein record
- Moat Lane Junction StationCoflein record
- Moat Lane Railway StationCoflein record
- Caersws Roman Fort: South-West Corner DefencesCoflein record
- Plas Newydd Conjoined CairnCoflein record
- Llyn Mawr, Cairn II ;Standing StoneCoflein record
- Gwynfynydd, EnclosureCoflein record
- Park Cottage Defended EnclosureCoflein record
- Caersws Causewayed EnclosureCoflein record
- Gwynfynydd Farm, Probable Defended EnclosureCoflein record
- Llyn Du CarinCoflein record
- Nant Cwm Gerwyn, Cairn IIICoflein record
- Garreg, CropmarkCoflein record
- Craig y Llyn Mawr, Cist?Coflein record
- Henblas, PontdolgochCoflein record
- Garreg Hir, Long HutCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Cefn Carnedd4.7 km south
- Bryn-tail Leadworks12.5 km south-west
- Dolforwyn Castle13.8 km 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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- 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.