LiDAR map of Torfaen
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Torfaen at one metre per pixel, with the 960 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 Torfaen
Each page shows the site on the LiDAR with its record, its location and the recorded places around it.
- Blaenavon IronworksIndustrial site
- Dyne Steel InclineScheduled monument
LiDAR maps of the communities of Torfaen
One page for each of the 16 communities, with a LiDAR picture and the recorded places inside it.
- Abersychan116 recorded places
- Blaenavon467 recorded places
- Croesyceiliog15 recorded places
- Cwmbran Central39 recorded places
- Fairwater15 recorded places
- Henllys9 recorded places
- Llantarnam43 recorded places
- Llanyrafon8 recorded places
- New Inn40 recorded places
- Panteg32 recorded places
- Pen Tranch46 recorded places
- Ponthir7 recorded places
- Pontnewydd21 recorded places
- Pontymoile73 recorded places
- Trevethin17 recorded places
- Upper Cwmbran12 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.