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LiDAR map of Rhondda Cynon Taf
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rhondda Cynon Taf at one metre per pixel, with the 2,062 recorded historic places the heritage records hold here, the Roman roads and the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1843–1913 over the same ground. Free, in a browser.
Places on the LiDAR in Rhondda Cynon Taf
Each page shows the site on the LiDAR with its record, its location and the recorded places around it.
- Iron Tram Bridge, RobertstownBridge
- Llantrisant CastleCastle
- Lle'r GaerHillfort
- Pontypridd BridgeBridge
LiDAR maps of the communities of Rhondda Cynon Taf
One page for each of the 39 communities, with a LiDAR picture and the recorded places inside it.
- Aberaman North39 recorded places
- Aberaman South38 recorded places
- Abercynon56 recorded places
- Aberdare East67 recorded places
- Aberdare West63 recorded places
- Cwm Clydach23 recorded places
- Cwmbach21 recorded places
- Cymmer23 recorded places
- Ferndale20 recorded places
- Gilfach Goch13 recorded places
- Hirwaun243 recorded places
- Llanharan56 recorded places
- Llanharry15 recorded places
- Llantrisant52 recorded places
- Llantwit Fardre34 recorded places
- Llwydcoed116 recorded places
- Llwyn-y-pia16 recorded places
- Maerdy39 recorded places
- Mountain Ash East51 recorded places
- Mountain Ash West41 recorded places
- Pen-y-graig56 recorded places
- Pen-y-waun40 recorded places
- Penrhiwceiber22 recorded places
- Pentre34 recorded places
- Pont-y-clun56 recorded places
- Pontypridd Town197 recorded places
- Porth37 recorded places
- Rhigos96 recorded places
- Taffs Well43 recorded places
- Tonypandy39 recorded places
- Tonyrefail40 recorded places
- Trealaw29 recorded places
- Trehafod18 recorded places
- Treherbert71 recorded places
- Treorchy104 recorded places
- Tylorstown37 recorded places
- Ynyshir21 recorded places
- Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm31 recorded places
- Ystrad64 recorded places
About the LiDAR
The terrain model is made from an airborne laser survey with vegetation and buildings removed, so earthworks show as height: hillfort ramparts, barrows, Roman road banks, hollow ways and ridge and furrow. In the app the picture is computed as you change the settings, with a moveable sun, a local relief model, multidirectional hillshading and the VAT composite. See how to read a LiDAR map and what archaeology looks like on LiDAR.
Sources
- LiDAR: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
Last updated 2026-10-16.