LiDAR map of Cray
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cray (Crai), a community in Powys, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 43 recorded places here: 28 Coflein records, 8 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 3 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 244 m and 554 m above sea level; its highest point is about 726 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 henge or standing stone and 1 barrow or cairn.
Cray 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 Cray, 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 Cray. 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 Cray 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 43 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
- 47.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 43
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 244–554 m above sea level; highest 726 m
- ONS code
- W04000266
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Twyn-y-GaerScheduled monument
- Waunewydd standing stoneScheduled monument
- Fan Gyhirych round cairnScheduled monument
- Pont GihirychScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Nant Cnewr-Fawr, Standing StoneCoflein record
- Bwlch Cerrig Duon CistCoflein record
- Bwlch Cerrig Duon, Burnt MoundCoflein record
- Nant Gihirych, Hut CircleCoflein record
- Nant Cnewr-Fawr, CairnCoflein record
- Fan Gyhirych Long HutCoflein record
- Nedd Fechan, Possible Long HutCoflein record
- Nedd Fechan, Possible Long HutCoflein record
- Blaen Crai Pillow Mounds, Cray Rabbit WarrenCoflein record
- Y Gelli, BankCoflein record
- Crai ReservoirWikidata place
- Afon CraiWikidata place
- Fan Bwlch ChwythWikidata place
- Fan FraithWikidata place
- Fforest FachWikidata place
- Fforest Fach Rifle Range;Cwm-Llwyfog Rifle RangeCoflein record
- Vulcan Xh536Coflein record
- Cray railway stationWikidata place
- Cray Reservoir, Swansea Corporation Water WorksCoflein record
- Fan Fraith, ShelterCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Maen Llia4.9 km south-east
- Castell Du6.5 km north-east
- Maen Madoc7.5 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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.