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LiDAR map of Llantwit Major
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Llantwit Major (Llanilltud Fawr), a community in Vale of Glamorgan, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 46 recorded places here: 20 Coflein records, 11 listed buildings, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 32 m and 78 m above sea level; its highest point is about 91 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 castle, 1 barrow or cairn and 1 Roman site.
Llantwit Major 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 Llantwit Major, 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 Llantwit Major. 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 Llantwit Major 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 46 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
- Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
- Area
- 16.9 km²
- Recorded places
- 46
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 32–78 m above sea level; highest 91 m
- ONS code
- W04000918
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Summerhouse CampScheduled monument
- Castle Ditches CampScheduled monument
- Morfa House Round BarrowScheduled monument
- Caermead Roman SiteScheduled monument
- Llantwit MajorAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Church of St Illtud
- The Town Hall
- Old Swan Inn PH
- Boverton Place
- Residential Parlour Block and Extension, Old Place
- Ty-Mawr
- Wall and Gateway
- Bethel Baptist Church
- Forecourt and Graveyard Gates, Gatepiers
- Windmill House
- Bethesda'r Fro Chapel
Other recorded places
- Supermarine Spitfire II a P8133Coflein record
- Supermarine Spitfire I P9509Coflein record
- Downs Round Barrow Pair or Hengiform MonumentCoflein record
- Caermead, Water Lane Defended EnclosureCoflein record
- Caermead, Morfa Lane Cropmark EnclosureCoflein record
- Moorlands Farm Defended Enclosure or VillaCoflein record
- Caermead Cropmark Enclosure 2Coflein record
- Llantwit Major SchoolCoflein record
- Llanilltud Fawr Primary SchoolCoflein record
- Pillbox VIII Llantwit MajorCoflein record
- Pillbox XIV, RAF St Athan AirfieldCoflein record
- Summerhouse, St Donat's Castle, St Donat'sCoflein record
- MOD St AthanWikidata place
- Special Forces Support GroupWikidata place
- Mid WellCoflein record
- Ebenezer Independent Chapel, High StreetCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Old Beaupre Castle4.5 km north-east
- St Quintins Castle5.3 km north
- East Orchard Castle5.5 km east
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.