LiDAR map of Bridgend
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Bridgend at one metre per pixel, with the 1,278 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.
Places on the LiDAR in Bridgend
Each page shows the site on the LiDAR with its record, its location and the recorded places around it.
- Candleston CastleCastle
- Coity CastleCastle
- Kenfig CastleCastle
- Llangynwyd CastleCastle
- Newcastle CastleCastle
- Old BridgeBridge
LiDAR maps of the communities of Bridgend
One page for each of the 20 communities, with a LiDAR picture and the recorded places inside it.
- Brackla3 recorded places
- Bridgend59 recorded places
- Cefn Cribwr17 recorded places
- Coity Higher25 recorded places
- Cornelly50 recorded places
- Coychurch Higher28 recorded places
- Coychurch Lower30 recorded places
- Garw Valley204 recorded places
- Laleston20 recorded places
- Llangynwyd Lower21 recorded places
- Llangynwyd Middle34 recorded places
- Maesteg263 recorded places
- Merthyr Mawr56 recorded places
- Newcastle Higher35 recorded places
- Ogmore Valley263 recorded places
- Pencoed25 recorded places
- Porthcawl57 recorded places
- Pyle25 recorded places
- St. Bride's Minor33 recorded places
- Ynysawdre27 recorded places
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.