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LiDAR map of Cyncoed
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Cyncoed, a community in Cardiff, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 12 recorded places here: 7 listed buildings, 4 Coflein records, 1 Wikidata place. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 23 m and 62 m above sea level; its highest point is about 68 m.
Cyncoed 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 Cyncoed, 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 Cyncoed. 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 Cyncoed 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 12 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
- 3.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 12
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 23–62 m above sea level; highest 68 m
- ONS code
- W04000997
Listed buildings
- Cyncoed Methodist Church
- Scott Memorial
- Entrance Gateway and flanking walls to Jews'
- Footbridge over the Roath Brook
- Footbridge over the Roath Brook between the Lake
- Lake Dam
- Footbridge over the Roath Brook near the Lake Dam
Other recorded places
- Roath Park, CardiffCoflein record
- All Saints' Church, Cyncoed Road, CyncoedCoflein record
- Park End Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, FidlasCoflein record
- Cardiff High SchoolWikidata place
- Heath Junction Signal Box, Heath, CardiffCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Caer Castell3.6 km east
- Twmpath Motte4.0 km west
- Cardiff Castle4.3 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.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.