LiDAR map of Llay
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Llay (Llai), a community in Wrexham, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 16 Coflein records, 3 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 50 m and 96 m above sea level; its highest point is about 120 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn.
Llay 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 Llay, 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 Llay. 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 Llay 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 24 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
- 9.1 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 50–96 m above sea level; highest 120 m
- ONS code
- W04000233
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Bryn Alyn CampScheduled monument
- Bryn Alyn Round BarrowScheduled monument
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Bradley Mill, Bradley, WrexhamCoflein record
- Wat's DykeCoflein record
- Wat's DykeCoflein record
- Castell y GurWikidata place
- Llay Wesleyan Methodist Church, Second AvenueCoflein record
- Llay Main Presbyterian ChurchCoflein record
- Church of The Nazarene, Nantygaer Road, LlayCoflein record
- Bethel Baptist Chapel, off Llay Court, LlayCoflein record
- Ewle Primitive Methodist Chapel, Gresford RoadCoflein record
- River CegidogWikidata place
- Llay Place, Garden, LlayCoflein record
- Bryn-Alyn, Garden, WrexhamCoflein record
- Gresford Lodge, Garden, GresfordCoflein record
- Talbot HotelCoflein record
- Bradley Fulling Mill, Bradley, WrexhamCoflein record
- Cae Groes, LlayCoflein record
- LlayWikidata place
- Llay Industrial EstateCoflein record
- Erw Groes, SydalltCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Caergwrle Castle3.1 km north-west
- Pulford Castle5.4 km north-east
- Dodleston Castle6.2 km north-east
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.