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LiDAR map of Ferndale
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Ferndale, a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 20 recorded places here: 14 Coflein records, 2 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 223 m and 433 m above sea level; its highest point is about 470 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn and 1 Roman site.
Ferndale 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 Ferndale, 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 Ferndale. 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 Ferndale 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 20 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
- 3.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 20
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 223–433 m above sea level; highest 470 m
- ONS code
- W04000683
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Carn-y-Pigwn Round CairnScheduled monument
- Twyn y Bridallt Roman CampScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- FerndaleCoflein record
- Ferndale CollieryWikidata place
- Carmel Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Tabernacle Welsh Independent Chapel, BrookCoflein record
- Salem Newydd Welsh Baptist Chapel, DyffrynCoflein record
- Capel Wesley Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, HighCoflein record
- Nazareth Welsh Baptist Chapel, George StreetCoflein record
- Cross Street Spiritualist Chapel, FerndaleCoflein record
- Ferndale Spiritualist Chapel, Cross StreetCoflein record
- Church in Wales, Station Road, BlaenllechauCoflein record
- Twyn Disgwylfa Building PlatformCoflein record
- Mission Church, FerndaleCoflein record
- BlaenllechauWikidata place
- Open-Air Swimming Baths, Darran Park, FerndaleCoflein record
- Darran Park, FerndaleCoflein record
- Ferndale Gas WorksCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown6.6 km north
- Pontypridd Bridge9.9 km south-east
- Pont-y-Cafnau10.7 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.