LiDAR map of Chirk
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Chirk (Y Waun), a community in Wrexham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 115 recorded places here: 60 Coflein records, 41 listed buildings, 7 scheduled monuments, 5 canal structures, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 65 m and 211 m above sea level; its highest point is about 395 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 5 enclosures and other earthworks and 1 castle.
Chirk 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 Chirk, 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 Chirk. 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 Chirk 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 115 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
- 19.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 115
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 65–211 m above sea level; highest 395 m
- ONS code
- W04000222
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Offa's Dyke: Chirk Park Section extending 340m NE of Home FarmScheduled monument
- Offa's Dyke: Caeau-Gwynion SectionScheduled monument
- Offa's Dyke: Chirk Park Section extending NE from the LakeScheduled monument
- Offa's Dyke: Section N & S of Tan-y-CutScheduled monument
- Offa's Dyke: Section N & S of Plas-OffaScheduled monument
- Offa's Dyke: Chirk Castle Section extending NE from Castle MillScheduled monument
- The Holyhead Road: the Chirk Embankment and earlier trackwaysScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Chirk Castle
- War Memorial
- Church of St Mary
- Cefn
- Brynkinallt Hall
- Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and Piers
- Chirk Tunnel
- Queen Anne's Cottage
- Chirk Mill
- Squash Court at Chirk Castle
- Halton Former Mission Church
- Medieval Font in the E Garden
- Chirk Furniture and Carpet Centre and Dwelling
- Second Terrace Wall at Whitehurst Gardens
- Statue by the lily pond in the E Garden
- Ha-ha at the E end of the E Garden
- Remains of Forge at Pont-y-blew
- Irishman's Bridge on the Llangollen Canal
- Whitehouse Bridge
- Pont-faen Bridge
- Trevor Mausoleum in churchyard of the Church
- Whitehurst Garden Gatepiers with Gates
- Chirk Lodge, Brynkinallt Park
- Gates, Piers and Railings to the W Gate
- Llwyn-y-cil Lodge
- Pen-y-bont Brick and Tile Co Office
- Chirk Town Council Offices
- Upper Terrace Wall at Whitehurst Gardens
- Lowest Terrace Wall at Whitehurst Gardens
- New Hall Gate to Chirk Park: the N Lodge
and 11 more on the map.
Other recorded places
- Chirk Castle MineCoflein record
- Chirk Railway StationCoflein record
- Whitehurst Railway Halt, near ChirkCoflein record
- Offa's Dyke: Chirk Castle Section ExtendingCoflein record
- Offa's Dyke: Section NorthCoflein record
- Offa's Dyke: Section North &Coflein record
- Cross Street Tunnel and Archways, LlangollenCoflein record
- Chirk Castle ParkCoflein record
- New Hall Moat;Y Waun, ChirkCoflein record
- Pentre, Mine ShaftCoflein record
- Catholic Church of The Sacred Heart of JesusCoflein record
- Chirk Tunnel, Llangollen Canal; Ellesmere CanalCoflein record
- Chirk Tunnel North Portal, LlangollenCoflein record
- Whitehouse Tunnel North Portal, LlangollenCoflein record
- Black Park Collieries Railway Bottom Wharf DockCoflein record
- Blocked Entrance to Bottom WharfCoflein record
- Glyn Ceiriog Tramway Wharf, LlangollenCoflein record
- Pen-y-Bont Brick and Tile Works Wharf, LlangollenCoflein record
- Ambulance StationCoflein record
- Methodist ChapelCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct3.0 km north-west
- Pont Cysyllte3.2 km north-west
- Castell Dinas Brân7.4 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.
- © Canal & River Trust copyright and database rights.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.