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LiDAR map of Cathays
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cathays, a community in Cardiff, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 39 recorded places here: 17 Coflein records, 16 listed buildings, 6 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 14 m and 28 m above sea level; its highest point is about 30 m.
Cathays 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 Cathays, 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 Cathays. 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 Cathays 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 39 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
- Cardiff, Wales
- Area
- 1.6 km²
- Recorded places
- 39
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 14–28 m above sea level; highest 30 m
- ONS code
- W04000842
Listed buildings
- Cathays Library
- Church of St Andrew and Teilo
- Welch Regimental War Memorial at Maindy Barracks
- School of Music, Cardiff University
- Cathays Methodist Church
- Entrance block at Maindy Barracks
- Gladstone Junior School
- Colonnade and gateways at S end of Queen Anne
- Mortuary Chapels at Cathays Cemetery
- Rosemount Funeral Home
- Nazareth House
- Tomb of Bishop Hedley in Cathays Cemetery
- Detroit & St Vincent block at Maindy Barracks
- Gladstone Infants School
- Sculpture in forecourt of Department of Music
- Arts and Social Sciences Library, Cardiff
Other recorded places
- Lads' Union, CardiffCoflein record
- Cathays, CathaysCoflein record
- Maindy Barracks, War MemorialCoflein record
- Maindy BarracksCoflein record
- Cathays Cemetery, CardiffCoflein record
- Cathays Rail Yard Gas HolderCoflein record
- Al-Manar CentreWikidata place
- St Alban's Mission Church, North Road, BlackweirCoflein record
- Pentyrch Street English Baptist Chapel, PentyrchCoflein record
- Miskin Streetbible Christian Chapel, CathaysCoflein record
- Crwys Hall English Calvinistic Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Fitzroy Street Mission English CalvinisticCoflein record
- Cathays Terrace United Free Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Dalton Street Primitive Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Heath Mission English Wesleyan Methodist ChapelCoflein record
- Sherman TheatreWikidata place
- Cathays railway stationWikidata place
- Cathays railway worksWikidata place
- Crwys Road railway stationWikidata place
- South Wales Brewery, Salisbury Road, CardiffCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Cardiff Castle1.6 km south
- Bishop's Palace2.4 km west
- Old Leckwith Bridge3.7 km south-west
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.