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LiDAR map of St. Athan
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of St. Athan (Sain Tathan), a community in Vale of Glamorgan, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 58 recorded places here: 33 Coflein records, 15 listed buildings, 5 scheduled monuments, 5 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 7 m and 48 m above sea level; its highest point is about 56 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 deserted villages and 1 military site.
St. Athan 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 St. Athan, 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 St. Athan. 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 St. Athan 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 58 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
- 11.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 58
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 7–48 m above sea level; highest 56 m
- ONS code
- W04000668
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- East Orchard Wood PillboxScheduled monument
- Deserted Medieval Village North East of Rock FarmScheduled monument
- Limpert Bay Anti-invasion DefencesScheduled monument
- Fleminston Deserted VillageScheduled monument
- West Aberthaw Medieval SiteScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Athan
- Church of St Brise
- Gileston Manor
- Stable Block of Gileston Manor
- Castleton Farmhouse
- Church of St Giles
- Church of St Michael the Archangel
- St Athan War Memorial
- Flemingston Court Farmhouse
- Telephone Call-box on the road verge
- Memorial at St Athan Boys' Village
- Telephone Call-box at road junction in centre
- The Old Rectory
- Anonymous Monument with railings in Churchyard
- Cross in Churchyard of Church of St Giles
Other recorded places
- FlemingstonCoflein record
- North American Mustang Mk1 Ag637Coflein record
- Gregory's WellCoflein record
- St John's Well, St AthanCoflein record
- Ffynnon-y-GreenCoflein record
- Aberthaw Corn MillCoflein record
- Seaview, St Athan, Defended EnclosureCoflein record
- Greenfield BarrowCoflein record
- Greenfield EnclosureCoflein record
- East Orchard WoodCoflein record
- Castleton Wood Defended EnclosureCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- East Orchard Castle1.5 km south-east
- Old Beaupre Castle3.5 km north
- St Quintins Castle6.1 km north-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.