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LiDAR map of Wales

Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Wales at one metre per pixel, with the 59,570 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.

Open Wales in the LiDAR map → The full map is built for a laptop or desktop browser.

59,570Recorded places

4,241Scheduled monuments

41,766Coflein records

8,709listed buildings

4,249places recorded in Wikidata

Castell Dinas Brân, Wales, on bare-earth LiDAR — Castell Dinas Brân on the bare-earth LiDAR, 0.8 km across, north at the top. LiDAR: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence.

Places on the LiDAR in Wales

Each page shows the site on the LiDAR with its record, its location and the recorded places around it.

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.