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LiDAR map of Rudry
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Rudry (Rhydri), a community in Caerphilly, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 24 recorded places here: 11 Coflein records, 7 listed buildings, 4 places recorded in Wikidata, 2 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 43 m and 193 m above sea level; its highest point is about 269 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 hillfort and 1 industrial site.
Rudry 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 Rudry, 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 Rudry. 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 Rudry 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
- Caerphilly, Wales
- Area
- 23.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 24
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 43–193 m above sea level; highest 269 m
- ONS code
- W04000748
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Ruperra Hillfort and MotteScheduled monument
- Rudry IronworksScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Ruperra Castle
- Church of St James, Rudry
- Cefn Mably Bridge
- Walls of former kitchen garden at Cefn Mably
- Lime Kilns on Van Road
- Iron Bridge over River Rhymney
- Michaelston Bridge
Other recorded places
- Cefn Mably HouseWikidata place
- Draethen VillageCoflein record
- Ruperra Castle, Garden, DraethenCoflein record
- Michaelstone Bridge Cropmark EnclosureCoflein record
- Pont-y-DraethenCoflein record
- Draethen Lead Mining Site, Coed Cefn-Pwll-DuCoflein record
- Ruperra Castle Park, RudryCoflein record
- Sm Uc-3Wikidata place
- Ebenezer Independent ChapelCoflein record
- Cefn MablyWikidata place
- Maenllwyd InnCoflein record
- Green Meadow Inn, RudryCoflein record
- Waterloo Tin Works, Waterloo, RudryCoflein record
- Machen Viaduct, Brecon and Merthyr RailwayCoflein record
- RudryWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Ruperra Castle1.2 km east
- Craig Ruperra Motte1.5 km east
- Castell Machen3.0 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.