LiDAR map of Acton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Acton, a community in Wrexham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 25 recorded places here: 20 Coflein records, 3 listed buildings, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 78 m and 92 m above sea level; its highest point is about 103 m.
Acton 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 Acton, 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 Acton. 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 Acton 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 25 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
- Wrexham, Wales
- Area
- 3.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 25
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 78–92 m above sea level; highest 103 m
- ONS code
- W04000890
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Rhosnesni ring ditch, ActonCoflein record
- Ebeneser Independent Chapel, Chester StreetCoflein record
- Wrexham Police Station, Bodhyfryd, WrexhamCoflein record
- Capel-y-GroesCoflein record
- Acton Park BarrowCoflein record
- Acton Park Summerhouse, WrexhamCoflein record
- Acton ParkCoflein record
- Ysgol Rhosnesni, Wrexham;Rhosnesni High SchoolCoflein record
- Memorial Hall, Bodhyfryd, WrexhamCoflein record
- Gorsedd Circle, Acton Park, WrecsamCoflein record
- Acton Park, ActonCoflein record
- Rhosnesni Primitive Methodist Chapel, RhosnesniCoflein record
- Society of Friends' Meeting HouseCoflein record
- Park; Parkiau; Cae Gwnningar, Park-y-ConyngeCoflein record
- Little Acton;Acton House, Garden, WrexhamCoflein record
- Park-y-Conynge, Wrexham;Cae GwnningarCoflein record
- BorrasWikidata place
- RhosnesniWikidata place
- Acton Park Infant SchoolCoflein record
- Acton Park Church School, RhosnesneyCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Bersham Ironworks4.8 km south-west
- Holt Castle6.6 km east
- Caergwrle Castle6.7 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.