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LiDAR map of Pen-y-waun
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Pen-y-waun, a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 40 recorded places here: 37 Coflein records, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 175 m and 386 m above sea level; its highest point is about 431 m.
Pen-y-waun 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 Pen-y-waun, 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 Pen-y-waun. 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 Pen-y-waun 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 40 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
- 3.7 km²
- Recorded places
- 40
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 175–386 m above sea level; highest 431 m
- ONS code
- W04000697
Other recorded places
- Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun, HirwaunCoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut VIICoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut VIIICoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut XIICoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut XIIICoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut XVCoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn y Gyngon, Hut XVICoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Air Shaft ICoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Air Shaft IICoflein record
- PenywaunCoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut IVCoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut IXCoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut XCoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut XICoflein record
- Mynydd Cefn-y-Gyngon, Hut XVCoflein record
- St Winifred's Church, Heol Bryn Gwyn, PenywaunCoflein record
- Cana Independent Chapel, Gwladys StreetCoflein record
- Cwm Mission HallCoflein record
- Ysgol Gyfun RhydywaunWikidata place
- Graig Colliery & Brick Works, Spoil TipCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Iron Tram Bridge, Robertstown2.6 km east
- Pont-y-Cafnau7.1 km north-east
- Foel Chwern7.4 km west
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.