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LiDAR map of Gelligaer
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Gelligaer, a community in Caerphilly, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 79 recorded places here: 41 Coflein records, 19 listed buildings, 12 places recorded in Wikidata, 4 scheduled monuments, 2 ancient places (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 133 m and 278 m above sea level; its highest point is about 344 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 Roman sites.
Gelligaer 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 Gelligaer, 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 Gelligaer. 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 Gelligaer 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 79 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
- 20.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 79
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 133–278 m above sea level; highest 344 m
- ONS code
- W04000736
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Twyn CastellScheduled monument
- Gelligaer Roman SiteScheduled monument
- Maen Cattwg (cup-marked stone)Scheduled monument
- Fforest Gwladys Roman practice campScheduled monument
- GelligaerAncient place (Pleiades)
- Gelligaer Roman Fort IIAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Llancaiach-fawr
- Penallta Colliery Baths Building
- Penallta Colliery No.1 Headframe
- Penallta Colliery No.2 Headframe
- Hengoed Viaduct
- Capel Hengoed
- Penallta Colliery Workshops
- Penallta Colliery Old Stores
- Penallta Colliery Lamp Room
- Penallta Colliery Pit-top Offices
- Ystrad Mynach South Signal Box
- Penallta Colliery Engine Hall and Fan House
- Church of St Catwg
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Old Fire Station
- Mill Forge
- The Old Mill
- Tir-y-berth County Primary School
- War Memorial
Other recorded places
- Llancaiach Colliery, NelsonCoflein record
- Hengoed Fire StationCoflein record
- Hengoed CollieryCoflein record
- Baptist Chapel, Gelligaer Road, Cefn HengoedCoflein record
- Penallta Colliery: WasheryCoflein record
- Cefn Hengoed Mission ChurchCoflein record
- Mynydd Eglwysilan, Quarry VICoflein record
- Mynydd Eglwysilan, Quarry VCoflein record
- Pen-Heol-Adam, Possible BarrowCoflein record
- Lewis' School;Gelligaer Charity School, PengamCoflein record
- Cinema, Ystrad MynachCoflein record
- Woollen Factory, Ystrad MynachCoflein record
- Pen-Heol-Adam Roman Practice Work; GelligaerCoflein record
- Penallta CollieryWikidata place
- Vicarage, Ystrad MynachCoflein record
- Ystrad MynachCoflein record
- Gelligaer TownscapeCoflein record
- Penpedairheol, BargoedCoflein record
- Nazareth Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, StationCoflein record
- Fleur-De-Lys Primitive Methodist Chapel, Fleur-DeCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Pen-y-fan Pond7.8 km north-east
- Pontypridd Bridge8.0 km south-west
- Caerphilly Castle9.1 km south
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.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
- Roman inscriptions: LatinNow Project, University of Nottingham, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.