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LiDAR map of Cwmbach
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cwmbach (Cwm-bach), a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 21 recorded places here: 17 Coflein records, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 116 m and 419 m above sea level; its highest point is about 493 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 barrows or cairns.
Cwmbach 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 Cwmbach, 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 Cwmbach. 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 Cwmbach 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 21 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
- Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
- Area
- 5.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 21
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 116–419 m above sea level; highest 493 m
- ONS code
- W04001013
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Darren Fawr Round CairnsScheduled monument
- Graig-y-Gilfach round cairn and earthworkScheduled monument
Other recorded places
- Cwm-Bach Primitive Methodist Chapel, Cwm-BachCoflein record
- Merthyr TunnelCoflein record
- Aber-Nant-y-Groes Uchaf Unitarian ChapelCoflein record
- Sunday School, Cwm-BachCoflein record
- Bryn Seion Independent Chapel, Tirfounder RoadCoflein record
- Carmel Independent Chapel, Cwm-BachCoflein record
- Neuadd SiloaCoflein record
- Ebenezer Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, TirfounderCoflein record
- South WalesWikidata place
- Cwmbach railway stationWikidata place
- Lletty-Shenkin House, Garden, AberdareCoflein record
- Cwmbach Lock; Upper Lock No.1, Aberdare CanalCoflein record
- St Mary Magdalene's Church, CwmbachCoflein record
- Craig y Dyffryn, Mountain AshCoflein record
- Tirfounder Fields, AberamanCoflein record
- Lletty Shinkin Colliery Gas WorksCoflein record
- Gas Works at Middle Duffryn Colliery, Cwmbach.Coflein record
- Cwmdu Drift Tramway ICoflein record
- Former Goods Yard, Robertstown, AberdareCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown3.6 km north-west
- Pont-y-Cafnau5.3 km north
- Morlais Castle7.9 km north
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.