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LiDAR map of Aber Valley
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Aber Valley (Cwm Aber), a community in Caerphilly, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 129 recorded places here: 116 Coflein records, 6 places recorded in Wikidata, 5 listed buildings, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 175 m and 322 m above sea level; its highest point is about 378 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn.
Aber Valley 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 Aber Valley, 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 Aber Valley. 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 Aber Valley 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 129 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
- Caerphilly, Wales
- Area
- 13.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 129
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 175–322 m above sea level; highest 378 m
- ONS code
- W04000726
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Garnedd LwydScheduled monument
- Cross Ridge Dyke & Cairn on Twyn HywelScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Senghenydd War Memorial
- Church of St Ilan
- Tomb of William Edwards in the churchyard of St
- Memorial to Annie Lawrence in the churchyard
- Lych Gate at the church of St Ilan, Eglwysilan
Other recorded places
- Mynydd Meio, Cairn IICoflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Cairn?Coflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Cairn ICoflein record
- Universal Colliery Office, SenghenyddCoflein record
- Universal Colliery, SenghenyddCoflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Bank IIICoflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Mound IICoflein record
- Abertridwr StationCoflein record
- Senghenydd Colliery DisasterWikidata place
- Windsor Colliery, AbertridwrCoflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Quarry IICoflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Quarry IIICoflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Quarry IVCoflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Quarry XVCoflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Hollow ICoflein record
- Mynydd Meio, Quarry VIIICoflein record
- Caer-Moel CairnCoflein record
- Ty-Llwyd, CistCoflein record
- Mynydd Eglwysilan, Cairn ICoflein record
- Mynydd Eglwysilan, Stone Pile XVCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Pontypridd Bridge4.4 km west
- Caerphilly Castle4.8 km south-east
- Morgraig Castle7.2 km south-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.