LiDAR map of Llywel
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Llywel, a community in Powys, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 184 recorded places here: 136 Coflein records, 25 scheduled monuments, 13 places recorded in Wikidata, 10 listed buildings. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 253 m and 550 m above sea level; its highest point is about 802 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 11 barrows or cairns, 7 henges and standing stones, 2 settlements and 1 castle.
Llywel 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 Llywel, 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 Llywel. 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 Llywel 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 184 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
- 107.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 184
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 253–550 m above sea level; highest 802 m
- ONS code
- W04000325
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Cerrig Duon Stone CircleScheduled monument
- Mynydd Bach-Trecastell Stone CirclesScheduled monument
- Nant Tarw Stone CirclesScheduled monument
- Waun Leuci Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Troed Rhiw Wen Prehistoric Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Gwern-Wyddog Standing StoneScheduled monument
- Cwm Henwen standing stoneScheduled monument
- Gilfach, Round Cairn 500m WSW ofScheduled monument
- Nant Tawe Fechan Burnt MoundScheduled monument
- Mynydd Bach-Trecastell Round CairnScheduled monument
- Cefn Cul ring cairnScheduled monument
- Garn Las ring cairnScheduled monument
- Garn Las platform cairnScheduled monument
- Pant Madog round cairnScheduled monument
- Tyle-mawr round cairnScheduled monument
- Blaen Clydach Fach platform cairnScheduled monument
- Cwm Henwen round barrowScheduled monument
- Blaen Clydach Fach round cairnScheduled monument
- Trecastle Mound and Bailey CastleScheduled monument
- Burnt Mound South of Fan HirScheduled monument
- Two Cairns on Fan FoelScheduled monument
- Allt Fach Deserted Rural SettlementScheduled monument
- Deserted Settlements 800m N of Blaenau FarmScheduled monument
- Rectangular Hut, Afon TaweScheduled monument
- Deserted Farmstead South of Ffynnon yr OerfaScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of Saint David
- The Castle Inn
- Pont Cwmwysg
- Former National School and National School House
- Former school in Llywel churchyard
- Milestone on A40 E of Halfway
- Gatepiers and gate on E side of Llywel churchyard
- Pont Pantysgallog
- Pont Pantyscallog
- Fingerpost at Pont Newydd, Trecastle
Other recorded places
- Nant Tarw Ritual Complex, Stone Circle 2Coflein record
- Y Pigwn Cairn I, Mynydd Bach TrecastellCoflein record
- Rhyd-Wen Fach, Stone SettingCoflein record
- Waun Leuci, Standing StoneCoflein record
- Vickers Wellington B1697Coflein record
- Cefn Cul, Standing StoneCoflein record
- Waun Leuci: Possible Standing StoneCoflein record
- Foel Darw, Recumbent StoneCoflein record
- Nant Tarw, BoulderCoflein record
- Broken Standing StoneCoflein record
- Trecastle MillCoflein record
- Pwll Dwfn, LimekilnCoflein record
- Y Pigwn Quarry, Mynydd Bach TrecastellCoflein record
- Llyn y Fan FawrCoflein record
- Nant Tarw Stone RowCoflein record
- Allt Fach, Hut CircleCoflein record
- Allt Fach, Hut CircleCoflein record
- Allt Fach, Hut CircleCoflein record
- Cefn Cul, Burnt MoundCoflein record
- Pwll Byfre, Hut CircleCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Castell Du7.4 km north-east
- Maen Llia9.6 km south-east
- Maen Madoc11.7 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.