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LiDAR map of St. Nicholas and Bonvilston
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of St. Nicholas and Bonvilston (Sain Nicolas a Thresimwn), a community in Vale of Glamorgan, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 41 recorded places here: 17 Coflein records, 11 listed buildings, 7 scheduled monuments, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 62 m and 118 m above sea level; its highest point is about 132 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 mottes or ringworks, 2 long barrows or chambered tombs, 1 castle and 1 moated site.
St. Nicholas and Bonvilston 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. Nicholas and Bonvilston, 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. Nicholas and Bonvilston. 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. Nicholas and Bonvilston 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 41 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
- 13.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 41
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 62–118 m above sea level; highest 132 m
- ONS code
- W04000672
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Tinkinswood Chambered TombScheduled monument
- Bonvilston GaerAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Coed-y-Cwm Chambered CairnScheduled monument
- Castle Ringwork 850m ENE of Ty'n-y-CoedScheduled monument
- Cottrell Castle MoundScheduled monument
- Cottrell RingworkScheduled monument
- Coed y Cwm RingworkScheduled monument
- Doghill Moated Site, DyffrynScheduled monument
- WhittonAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Dyffryn House
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Milestone
- Telephone Call-box on corner with road to St
- GPO Pillar on corner with Road to St Nicholas'
- Churchuard Cross at Parish Church of St Mary
- Lion steps
- Tinkins Hall
- Fountain
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Cory Family Chest-Tomb at Parish Church of St
Other recorded places
- Cottrell Park Standing StoneCoflein record
- St Nicholas's Well, St NicholasCoflein record
- St Nicholas Police StationCoflein record
- Redland Farm, StoneCoflein record
- Cottrell HouseWikidata place
- BonvilstonCoflein record
- Soar Calvinistic Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Trehill Calvinistic Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- The Three TunsCoflein record
- Tre-Hill;Prince's Arms InnCoflein record
- Cottrell House - Curling RinkCoflein record
- Dyffryn House Walled Garden, St Nicholas, CardiffCoflein record
- Bonvilston, Garden, BonvilstonCoflein record
- Dyffryn House, Palm House, St NicholasCoflein record
- St Nicholas and BonvilstonWikidata place
- St NicholasWikidata place
- St Nicholas, Field SystemCoflein record
- Brook Wood Parchmark EnclosuresCoflein record
- BonvilstonWikidata place
- Ty'n-y-Coed, CropmarksCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- St Lythans Chambered Tomb2.3 km south-east
- Caerau Hillfort5.4 km east
- Barry Castle6.7 km south
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.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.